India banning TikTok was also a big blow for Bytedance. However, the sudden disappearance of Indian users was one of the best things to ever happen to TikTok. Like I said, Douyin is only used by one country and the content on there is phenomenal. The rest of the world will be fine without American users.
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You are putting the horse in front of the cart. Companies pay TT to advertise to get exposure for their products, not out of charity.
If a ban takes place but everyone in America still uses TT anyways (just look at prohibition and current US illegal drug use statistics to see how well bans work to get people to give up on things they want to do), American companies will become even more uncompetitive in their own markets compared to foreign rivals who do advertise on TT.
The only way America can actually do serious damage to Bytedance is if it places secondary sanctions in place on top of a ban. Secondary sanctions are nothing like a ban, and as far as I am aware, are not in the bill and on the cards, in the short term at least. If America is loony toon enough to try secondary sanctions, then it will be full spectrum economic nuclear war with China as China absolutely will not allow such a precedent to be set unopposed.
Speaking of secondary sanctions, I've always wondered why China doesn't impose secondary sanctions on anti-China media (both MSM and social media), particularly Taiwanese pro-independence media outlets.
This is a US self owned, there will be no Americans creating positive American content on TikTok.
imagine if you were a natsec guy who had all your 401k and retirement funds in funds that are supposed to profit from a China collapse… this kinda stuff gives these people haemorrhoids.
uh no, you obviously never had the college experience of using vpns to watch streaming shows in other countries, let alone getting access to such entertainment.
A precedent has now been set where all nations can pull an India and ban Facebook and whatsapp or force those companies to nationalise or be sold for pennies on the dollar to local oligarchs.
Your post is not just disingenuous, it’s wish casting. Tiktok isn’t just composed of US creators unless your TikTok feed is twerking and peeping on 12 year olds. I watch TikTok in Australia and there’s plenty of Aussie creators on TikTok as well. The world isn’t america, as much as navel gazing Americans would wish it. We’re not in the 90s anymore. Advertisers arent automatically going to run back to faceberg just cuz he managed to bribe senators into a TikTok ban and if Americans watching TikTok on the sky aren’t being exposed to American ads, they’ll be exposed to Chinese ads, promoting Chinese products which they will buy, pouring more money into China. look At the impulse buys from girls on shein, Temu and TikTok. That’s money not going to Facebook and it makes white Americans rage.
Who cares? If SK can’t compete globally, no matter what infinitesimal market access the Americans give them, theyll die anyhow. Whatever fraction of americas 350mln market SK gets will be nothin compared to China’s market of 1.4bln and its billions plus associates in BRI. The strong do what they wish, the weak suffer what they must.
kinda amusing all of these CIA sock puppet accounts are also overwhelmingly pro Israel. What are the chances? Looks like it’s not just USG which is already highly Jewish but also the intelligence services as well.This guy is on suicide watch. I'm sure browsing weibo will cheer him up
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The bill penalize Americans companies hosting tiktok on US soil. The problem is that video would have to traverse from canada/mexico or even further which would make a poor experience anyways. TikTok will likely just block US IPs. People using VPN will have poor experience until many people just give up.
I just hope Douyin/Litte Red Book/Billibilli are excluded from murica racism and i can access with slowdown or vpn.
Do you use TT?
If US bans TT, it is banned in the US. Othe countries will still have TT access and companies can still advertise.
Without US content creators, the rest of the world would slowly lose interest too and TT will eventually die off.
Any data to show that the rest of the world relies on US content? It's mainly the 5 eyes nation that does. That's not the rest of the world
TikTok content isn't 90s/2000s hollywood sfx flicks that no one else is capable of producing. People mostly enjoy watching local content or content with similar culture or racial identity. Muslims overseas watch muslim content or muslims day-of-life living in America, not white american christians complaining about something or how he is making pig bbq lol