Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out

• Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  unless the bill has changed since the last time I read it, there were fines for hosting the service in US datacenters, and fines for companies allowing US data to exist in non-us datacenters. I don’t think you could interpret the bill as imposing a civil penalty to a user using a vpn and accessing it.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly. I read Division H of the bill (the more important to me), and civilians would only be impacted if they distribute a banned app or something. ISPs could potentially be culpable though, but I’m pretty sure that’s related to hosting the infra for something like TikTok and not just allowing traffic to it.

    So yeah, using a VPN with TikTok would totally work. Not sure if you could get updates to the app over VPN though, that depends on how the stores handle regions.

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    • Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not sure if you could get updates to the app over VPN though, that depends on how the stores handle regions.

      Specifically, app stores would be required not to host it, so you’d likely have to do updates through some sort of side-loading

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m saying if you’re reporting your location as the EU, could you get updates through the App Store? Or would it know you’re a US customer and disallow it, even if you report that you’re in the EU? Or does it use GPS location?

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• Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not that I saw.

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