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"We know that a lot of politicians (and media folks) in the US are pushing to
ban TikTok. It has seemed notable, of course, that European countries don’t
seem all that worried about TikTok, which should raise questions about how
serious the “threat” really is. However, one major country did decide to ban
TikTok a few years ago: India.
Of course, it was less about the threats TikTok posed directly (even though the
Indian government pretended otherwise), and more about retaliation for the
border dispute between India and China.
That said, we now have a few years of evidence as to how that’s worked out in
India. In the last couple of days, both the
Wall Street Journal and the
NY
Times have published articles looking at what happened when India banned
TikTok. In both cases, it’s a mixed bag, but it didn’t work out as well as the
government liked, generally helping big American companies and pissing off lots
of young people."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
