You can really tell who controls CNNs leash from this story.
And frankly, the law Biden signed to ban TikTok could apply to a lot of foreign social media apps and they’re not preemptively banning any of those. Just the one Americans are using right now. National security threat indeed.
I think that’s the only play they have without revealing their hand.
But that’ll just lead to pissed off Americans figuring out en masse how to sideload apps which is even more problematic if your goal is controlling content.
You can really tell who controls CNNs leash from this story.
And frankly, the law Biden signed to ban TikTok could apply to a lot of foreign social media apps and they’re not preemptively banning any of those. Just the one Americans are using right now. National security threat indeed.
I know the law allows the president to add more sites sithout further legislation; could they force the major app stores to remove XHS?
I think that’s the only play they have without revealing their hand.
But that’ll just lead to pissed off Americans figuring out en masse how to sideload apps which is even more problematic if your goal is controlling content.