This is what the TikTok ban (in this case CapCut, another Bytedance app that's collateral damage) looks like in app stores like Google Play. For those of you calling the temporary blackout a "stunt" by TikTok, that's not TikTok's doing - it's Google's.
A sobering reminder that app stores enable turnkey censorship for governments.
On Android you can at least install alternative app stores after ignoring some scary security warnings. On iOS in the US, you must put your faith in Apple alone.
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Facts matter: Both Apple and Google censored TikTok and other Bytedance apps as a result of the ban, which was explicitly written to take effect today.
Yes, this gave Trump an opportunity to play free speech hero (even though he himself had called for a ban previously) and to then try to arrange a sale to a US oligarch.
The way to avoid this outcome would have been to not vote for the stupid ban in the first place.
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@eloquence Dems played themselves. Out of greed, xenophobia, and wanting to censor truth about a genocide the government was funding.
We really need to open source everything.
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@eloquence I hope the well-placed footgun blast the Democrats aimed at themselves develops gangrene.
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@eloquence More like ‘actively enable’ since the news like this are dime a dozen (for VPN apps in particular):
https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/11/15/apple-removes-rfe-rl-app-from-russian-app-store-at-federal-censor-s-demand
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