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useapen wrote:

Jan. 18, 2025
“Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now,” the message read.

Hours before a federal law banning TikTok from the United
States was set to take effect on Sunday, the Chinese-owned
social media app went dark, and U.S. users could no longer
access videos on the platform. Instead, the app greeted them
with a message that said “a law banning TikTok has been
enacted.”

“We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he
will work with us on a solution,” the message said. “Please
stay tuned!”

Of course... TikTok will be back in action after the
inauguration and President Trump will declare it as a victory.

Normal service will then resume.

TikTok also appeared to have been removed from Apple and
Google’s U.S. app stores, some users said. In addition,
TikTok’s sister app, Lemon8, stopped working and showed U.S.
users a message saying that it “isn’t available right now.”
Both TikTok and Lemon8 are owned by ByteDance, a Chinese
internet giant.

How all of the Gen Z'ers are going to manage with no TikTok for
a day or so is another issue... how will the poor things cope?
They might even have to talk to some real people for a while!!!

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On Sun, 19 Jan 2025, Blueshirt wrote:

useapen wrote:

Jan. 18, 2025
“Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now,” the message read.

Hours before a federal law banning TikTok from the United
States was set to take effect on Sunday, the Chinese-owned
social media app went dark, and U.S. users could no longer
access videos on the platform. Instead, the app greeted them
with a message that said “a law banning TikTok has been
enacted.”

“We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he
will work with us on a solution,” the message said. “Please
stay tuned!”

Of course... TikTok will be back in action after the
inauguration and President Trump will declare it as a victory.

Normal service will then resume.

TikTok also appeared to have been removed from Apple and
Google’s U.S. app stores, some users said. In addition,
TikTok’s sister app, Lemon8, stopped working and showed U.S.
users a message saying that it “isn’t available right now.”
Both TikTok and Lemon8 are owned by ByteDance, a Chinese
internet giant.

How all of the Gen Z'ers are going to manage with no TikTok for
a day or so is another issue... how will the poor things cope?
They might even have to talk to some real people for a while!!!

I find it scary reading about people complaining about tiktok abstinence.
Do they not realize themselves that it is not normal behaviour?

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D wrote:

On Sun, 19 Jan 2025, Blueshirt wrote:

useapen wrote:

TikTok also appeared to have been removed from Apple and
Google’s U.S. app stores, some users said. In addition,
TikTok’s sister app, Lemon8, stopped working and showed
U.S. users a message saying that it “isn’t available
right now.” Both TikTok and Lemon8 are owned by ByteDance,
a Chinese internet giant.

How all of the Gen Z'ers are going to manage with no TikTok
for a day or so is another issue... how will the poor things
cope? They might even have to talk to some real people for
a while!!!

I find it scary reading about people complaining about tiktok
abstinence. Do they not realize themselves that it is not
normal behaviour?

It's normal for them, as they have no life beyond their
smart-phones.

The scary thing is... they are the future!

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On Mon, 20 Jan 2025, Blueshirt wrote:

D wrote:

On Sun, 19 Jan 2025, Blueshirt wrote:

useapen wrote:

TikTok also appeared to have been removed from Apple and
Google’s U.S. app stores, some users said. In addition,
TikTok’s sister app, Lemon8, stopped working and showed
U.S. users a message saying that it “isn’t available
right now.” Both TikTok and Lemon8 are owned by ByteDance,
a Chinese internet giant.

How all of the Gen Z'ers are going to manage with no TikTok
for a day or so is another issue... how will the poor things
cope? They might even have to talk to some real people for
a while!!!

I find it scary reading about people complaining about tiktok
abstinence. Do they not realize themselves that it is not
normal behaviour?

It's normal for them, as they have no life beyond their
smart-phones.

The scary thing is... they are the future!

;) or ;( I don't know.

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On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:58:22 +0000, "Blueshirt"
<blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

as they have no life beyond their
smart-phones.

And TikTok may impact the mental health of adults, teens and children.

On the one hand, ByteDance has thumbed its nose at various nations'
laws/etc, but when caught, makes 'amends'.

But, "Citing national security issues the Indian Government banned
CapCut and TikTok along with 58 other Chinese apps on 29 June
2020.[145] The ban was made permanent in January 2021.[146][75] In
March 2021, the Indian government froze ByteDance's bank accounts in
the country for alleged tax evasion, which ByteDance disputed."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance

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