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Shades
Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 65002
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Posted: 01/19/25 5:14 am ::: The TikTok block |
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Looks like they really did it. I’m not sure how that works. The USA part of TikTok is beholden to the USA government?
I was hearing that the app would just no longer be available in the App Store. But it’s more than just that. TikTok sends a “no longer available” notice when you open the app.
VPN doesn’t solve the problem. What good is a VPN if you can’t even fool TikTok? I tried getting on TikTok through a browser instead of using the app. That looked promising, but if you try to search for something, it kicks up the app and then the app goes through the closing process. Deleting the app and then using the browser might work, but I’m too nervous that someone will come up with a workaround to the block, and then I won’t have the app, which is probably much superior in performance to the browser.
I’m waiting for the very tech-savvy pilight to post the workaround to this TikTok block.
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Ex-Ref
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Posted: 01/19/25 10:25 am ::: |
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The top of the page on USAToday last night was that the Tik Tok shut down had begun.
Never go to TikTok, so I'm not sure this will have much of an effect on me.
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pilight

Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 67679 Location: Where the action is
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Posted: 01/19/25 1:57 pm ::: |
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Trump says he's going to reverse the shutdown.
It's obviously just partisan nonsense. Trump wanted to shut it down when he was in office before, but now that Biden's done so he wants to undo it.
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toad455
Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Posts: 22596 Location: NJ
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Posted: 01/19/25 2:56 pm ::: |
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pilight wrote: |
Trump says he's going to reverse the shutdown.
It's obviously just partisan nonsense. Trump wanted to shut it down when he was in office before, but now that Biden's done so he wants to undo it. |
He'll take credit for anything even if he had nothing to do with it. MAGAs are really a different breed of stupidity.
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jammerbirdi

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Posted: 01/19/25 3:22 pm ::: |
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It’s back up.
Greeting message reads:
As a result of President Trump’s efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S. _________________ Every woman who has ever been presented with a career/sex quid pro quo in the entertainment industry should come forward and simply say, “Me, too.” - jammer The New York Times 10/10/17 |
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Shades
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Posted: 01/19/25 3:39 pm ::: |
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Just a PR stunt for Trump? Oh brother.
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jammerbirdi

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Posted: 01/19/25 4:29 pm ::: |
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Shades wrote: |
Just a PR stunt for Trump? Oh brother. |
Not ‘JUST’ a PR stunt for Trump. But certainly everything that happened in the last 24 hours was scripted by him and the CEO who was at Mar-a-Lago and who will be a guest at the inauguration. And yes, all for the maximum PR benefit of Trump. However. The fact is that if Trump hadn’t of gotten elected and hadn’t advocated for TikTok, it would be gone for good.
Trump saved TikTok. The question now is for how long. Because a) it’s unclear whether or not Trump can actually issue a 90 day pause and b) he’s going to have to orchestrate a whole new piece of legislation to undo the ban that was just upheld by the Supreme Court._________________ Every woman who has ever been presented with a career/sex quid pro quo in the entertainment industry should come forward and simply say, “Me, too.” - jammer The New York Times 10/10/17 |
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Shades
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jammerbirdi

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Posted: 01/19/25 5:01 pm ::: |
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Any riff between Trump and Musk is manna from heaven._________________ Every woman who has ever been presented with a career/sex quid pro quo in the entertainment industry should come forward and simply say, “Me, too.” - jammer The New York Times 10/10/17 |
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Ex-Ref
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Posted: 01/19/25 6:18 pm ::: |
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Trump and Musk are both pricks. As is Zuck, Bezos, and everyone involved with the incoming admin.
These next four years can not get over soon enough.
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Shades
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Posted: 01/19/25 7:08 pm ::: |
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I refuse to view Trump as some kind of “savior” for TikTok, when he started all the China hate (probably mostly because Covid made him look like the inept leader that he is) and he himself initiated the process for banning TikTok.
https://www.instagram.com/stories/aoc/3549180679441213326
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toad455
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Posted: 01/19/25 9:37 pm ::: |
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Ex-Ref wrote: |
Trump and Musk are both pricks. As is Zuck, Bezos, and everyone involved with the incoming admin.
These next four years can not get over soon enough. |
anyone elected to his cabinet kissed his a$$ royally during his campaign. unlike his first term, this second term won't have anyone on his cabinet opposing anything he does. they'll put him on a pedestal and tell him he's great 24/7.
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