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Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it (www.theverge.com)
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[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They already moved it onto American servers, in 2022.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

they want the chinese info too you silly little american

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The chinese market has a different version of Tiktok, Douyin. Tiktok being American owned wouldn't give Chinese data. It would give America data of all other countries though, ~85% of Tiktok's userbase, unless ByteDance only spun off American Tiktok.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

you didn't have to ruin my bad joke smh.