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TikTok Plans ‘Immediate’ Shutdown of App in U.S. on Jan. 19 If Supreme Court Doesn’t Block Ban: Reports (variety.com)
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[–] arin@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

They have servers here otherwise it would be a laggy mess to use tiktok

[–] Technoguyfication@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

Correct, but that doesn’t mean TikTok would be inaccessible if they didn’t have servers in the US. My point is that the federal government doesn’t have the ability to completely limit access to a foreign website. It would be very slow and they’d lose users, sure, but they could keep running as usual from outside the US and still remain accessible to people inside the US.