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We have a rather large amount of experience with sanctions and people trying to evade them.

I think we might be able to manage to identify a company with hundreds of millions of users trying to mask themselves by... changing their name.

It's not like we're going to firewall them off. The bill bans distribution of the app in the US app stores and US companies from offering any kind of internet hosting services related to the app.



So providing tiktok app and running from servers abroad is ok? :D Talk about causing the opposite of the law's intentions.


Yes, if TikTok wanted to provide an .apk from a non-US server that connects to non-US servers to operate, that would not be prohibited by this law. I'm sure there are hundreds, even thousands of current American TikTok users who would consider making use of this.


If thousands use it then 99.99%+ of the user base would not. Which would be totally fine in the eyes of the laws objectives


My wife uses Douyin in the USA on her iPhone with no proboem.


Douyin is available in the US iPhone app store?


I don't think so. But you can easily switch to the Chinese app store from America, you just need RMB to buy any paid apps. You can have apps installed from both stores on your phone.




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