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[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 90 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Aw. Do us next please.

Kind regards,

Europe

[–] sxan@midwest.social 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

USA next. If we can ban TikTok, we can do Twitter too!

[–] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ugh, TikTok isn't banned in the US...

[–] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, but they have been trying to ban it.

[–] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Until they do, your statement doesn't make sense lol

[–] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As someone who hates corporate social media (and TikTok especially), I can’t figure out if banning TikTok is a legit security issue or racist. I’d love to see it go, but I can’t seem to form an opinion on the matter despite reading up on it several times.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully it is first brick in the wall, after Brazil finds it did not collapse due to absence of twitter

[–] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Unless Twitter geoblocks Brazil or bans all users who set their country to Brazil it will not be absent there. As far as I can tell Twitter doesn’t use country specific tlds or subdomains, so nothing will materially change for Brazilian users.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As someone who has some social media including Twitter geoblocked... No, this is not enough to make a social media die down in a region lol

[–] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

This is true. I guess I should have said “Unless twitter geoblocks or bans Brazilian users, they’re not even making an attempt to be absent there”.