Millions of people in this country aren’t gonna give a shit that it was Donald Trump who initially wanted to ban it and it was that it was a bipartisan deal President Biden signed it into law. That’s what matters
Pretty wild that TikTok is shilling for Trump given the hard lockout & that its users tend to lean anti-Trump. If there's a long delay in getting unbanned or the Trump stuff gets too odious, some ppl won't come back. That's assuming the data is fine; if accounts are gone ppl won't come back at all.
"We are fortunate that people are dumb enough to forget the Trump administration started this entire fiasco, and look forward to the profits we will undoubtedly make from it."
EVERY Dem needs to be primaried. Period. The whole party cares more about "optics" and "messaging" than actually fighting for anything of consequence, and then run around begging for donations saying "we got them right where we want them." or "just need $5 today to execute our plan to save America"
It's not letting me back on with a VPN and GPS spoofing either. This is beyond a IP ban. They probably have banned access to all accounts created or originating in the US.
I'm trying on desktop but nordvpn seems to be down. Probably too many people all trying to use it right now.
Yeah, I think it is an account-level ban. Which makes sense, honestly: "Fuck me? No, FUCK YOU!" is a pretty understandable response, in any language or culture.
I was able to start a new account, but it asked me to install the app on my phone, and that's a no-go for me.
Just tried on desktop. I was able to access the site with a VPN but once I logged in, it gave me the ban notice. I think this is specific to US based accounts and cannot be circumvented with a VPN.
I just had a British friend use his phone to login to my account and I received the code but when entered tt gave an error message saying it was not available for this region
Honestly them doing this is gonna not embolden the reasons people were saying this needed to happen in the first place! Such a dumb own goal optically.
at the same time, it could be easier for them to block any account they know is from the us and is definitely more accurate than trying to do IP blocking. could very well just be them covering their asses
Eh, kind of shady. I'd say it's more petty than shady. The idea being to make sure Joe Biden is seen as the reason this happened, and Trump the savior, which makes Trump happy and likely more receptive to keeping them up and running.
And what's worse is that Joe Biden handed it right to them.
Which only further entrenches the fact that they're not intending to actually try and run like a business and act in a rational manner! If I was an American abroad why does my account need to be blocked?
(Almost like there's an ulterior motive to their business)
Do you say the same thing when PornHub posts a message in Florida saying "Sorry, your state has dumb laws so you can't use us" or is it just when TikTok does it?
If pornhub put that message up and then banned their users from using their site anywhere in the U.S. if it originated in Florida, despite the law not banning porn in California: yeah, that's not great optics.
I couldn't even log out of my account to try and create a new one outside of the US. I had to uninstall and then sideload an archived apk of tiktok. Trying to make a new account behind a VPN to see if I can access. When I got back on, it auto logged back into my account and showed this on my profile
Managed to create a new account on desktop. I am unable to get logged off on the phone app or uninstall and reinstall. It's throwing up errors. US based accounts are still visible to those with accounts outside of the US.
This is one of the most restrictive bans I've ever seen on social media.
When you uninstalled it did you make sure that all data was actually removed? Because it seems like enough data was around after install for it to remember your account.
If you created your account in the US and then moved, you weren’t allowed to change regions. You had to sign up for a new account totally, so folks in other countries with the US based accts are banned, too.
With Shou reposting the MAGA praise and Facebook making an official TikTok account, I expect it'll all be back up come Monday or Tuesday with some big announcement and ruined algorithms full of Heil Trump. Once again, we the people are just a product for sale.
I'm coming to you live and direct through NordVPN, right now (Germany #1143, though I'm in the US).
What you're describing would require that TikTok has previously identified users as *probably* being US based, and is actively blocking those accounts. Which is possible, but also would be weird?
I've never had a TikTok account, so I figured I'd try it. Using NordVPN from a German IP address, I was able to connect, & to get as far into account creation as a code sent to my email. It asked me to use a QR code to install the app on my phone, which I didn't do, and presumably would have failed.
Yep, if your account was created in the US, then you're banned.
Desktop and mobile work fine with a VPN if you're not logged in, or if you create a new account. I've been using Mullvad VPN with an offshore server and it works just fine
it can only come back if its making a deal to sell right? i think a good chunk of people don't want to come back if meta or whatever new seller they got controlling it but yeah, i get it tho this was all dumb and makes him look good
Bigger than funding and arming genocide while covering for it on the world stage, so that when it miraculously resolves under Trump, he gets to claim he's a peacemaker who deserves a Novel Peace Prize?
What do you mean the Dems? This was a bipartisan bill and Biden stated yesterday he had no intention of prosecuting. Trump doesn’t have a magic wand. He just inherits the DOJ tomorrow.
The second biggest, Trump gets the phoney ceasefire too. They lost the supreme court, all 3 levels of government, Roe v Wade overturned and 4 more years of Trump. New levels of stepping on rakes achieved
Which will help Trump do what ... Deport people with public support? Win reelection? Not have anyone piss on his grave after he's dead? Whatever political upside comes after TikTok comes back to life will be more than ephemeral.
As if we aren't already in a big pile of shit with the elect Prez, this really says something about our Country, if all it takes is a tiktok "hero". Wonder how many people on tiktok have been watching the confirmation hearings, who nominees are.... This Country willl get the gov it deserves. SMGDH
People voted for Trump in '24 based on the stimulus checks they got with his name on them in '20. A VAST majority of Americans don't care about politics and only feel affected by them maybe a couple times per year. This is huge. Dems fucked UP.
People won't remember, but it will impact the election none the less, as it will be harder to organize. Last year more were enabled to register to vote and more fundraising was done through Tiktok than elsewhere.
My issue is the plan most likely involves TikTok removing “political bias” which means the algorithm at least in the USA will have a right lean to it and promote racism secretly like meta does.
I kinda think they don't want to really be in control. For years now they've fundraised off fear mongering, but then have not even tried to do anything of merit. Did they try to codify Roe, or Obergefell, or any numerous other things? No.
I'm sad it's gone, but if Trump gets credit for bringing it back by getting one of his oligarch friends to buy it, I'm not logging back on. We have enough American Oligarch controlled media platforms. I'll pass on that. #RIPtiktok
Betting that's the intent from the beginning of the corporate oligarchy. Sweeping control of a few over the many after attempts to push bad bills like KOSA fail time and time again.
Luckily, there's a new alternative that's rising from the ashes.
Please everyone throw your support behind @buildwithtori.com @reedharmeyer.bsky.social and their tiktok replacement for bluesky called @skylight.social !!!! Bigger and better to come. We won't be gaslit! Time to take power back from oligarchs! It won't be the same tiktok anymore anyways.
Sorry to all the TikTok fans and especially the content creators.
But… good riddance.
The Chinese government had their hacking experts “help out” with coding the TikTok app to gather as much of *your* private information as possible.
Apparently this didn’t disturb anyone in the U.S. until now.
Meta and Twitter collected even more data and equifax, an american company, allowed half of all american’s social security numbers to be leaked to the dark web.
China can’t hurt me more than my own government already has.
You might be surprised what China can do and is doing. The vast majority of serious hackers are state-sponsored by either China or Russia. And they’re not doing it just for fun or to show off to their friends. They are professionals.
AOC just posted a video discussing the weak evidentiary presentation made to her committee when the idea of a ban was first raised. She said she saw no real threat.
She’s on the National Security, The Border, and Foreign Affairs subcommittee. She posted a video today about what was presented to that committee, but she didn’t say who made the presentation.
I stand corrected. It’s what I heard years ago from professional contacts I trust, but it may have been informed speculation on their part and not based on hard evidence. None of what I heard was classified.
Most of TikTok’s users are too young to remember Trump tried to ban it in the first place. The democrats just handed the Republicans the youth vote on a platter.
What a world we live in where being an unrepentantly corrupt fascist and bringing back the CCP app from banishment is political win all around! We are fucking COOKED!🤣
All Trump can do is to refuse to prosecute. The exact same response that Biden made yesterday. This is corrupt beyond all fucking measure. There was no need to go dark today.
TikTok kicked in $50k for an off-broadway inauguration party. Elmo has them outbid by at least 5000 to 1 with his own $250m+ bribe. There will be hell to pay if he doesn't get his money's worth.
And Donnie still has his own competing website to think about...
To be honest I don't see this has a W cause Republicans signed off on it too so what excalty is the W when it was a Republican led bill to begin with that Trump approved ? House was controlled by Republicans. Senate yeah I see the argument but still it's a bipartisan bill lol
Except Biden said he was not going to enforce the ban & TikTok is doing this to show their clout, get people angry at the US govt & set up their pal Trump as a hero. It's a ruse. TikTok's CEO will be in the VIP area for Trump's inauguration.
It’s comforting to now know the American government is concerned for the privacy of American data. Wonder what they were doing when Facebook sold American user’s data to Cambridge analytical in 2016.
Congress wouldn’t lift a finger when literally half the country had their social security numbers exposed on the dark web. But TikTok says Palestinians are human, actually and it’s all weapons drawn at them.
All US accounts, their content, and data was stored on US servers which have all been shut down. If your account was tied to a US phone number it doesn’t exist at the moment.
Yeah I was just letting you know why the vpn thing only kind of works. People have been really confused especially since people have been making stuff up.
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Millions of people in this country aren’t gonna give a shit that it was Donald Trump who initially wanted to ban it and it was that it was a bipartisan deal President Biden signed it into law. That’s what matters
though I'm not sure he is going to manage to get Tiktok turned back on under continued CCP control and I doubt they're going to sell
I'm trying on desktop but nordvpn seems to be down. Probably too many people all trying to use it right now.
It's definitely an account-level ban. There's zero reason TikTok would need to do this by the letter of the law.
I was able to start a new account, but it asked me to install the app on my phone, and that's a no-go for me.
Which means they're absolutely trying to maximalize the punitive backlash.
Very, very shady.
Porn sites have absolutely circumvented their state-wide restrictions knowing people use VPNs and they're not running into issues.
And what's worse is that Joe Biden handed it right to them.
(Almost like there's an ulterior motive to their business)
This is one of the most restrictive bans I've ever seen on social media.
For whatever reason Android doesn't seem to fully clear those when you uninstall and reinstall.
I don't recall entering my country or anything like that when i signed up :o
sidenote : Canada is already the 51st state ....
If you do, please help us. We are struggling to find food for our family today. Our children are crying from hunger.😓😅💔
What you're describing would require that TikTok has previously identified users as *probably* being US based, and is actively blocking those accounts. Which is possible, but also would be weird?
And, it occurs to me, this is why I never signed up for TikTok: I don't want any app to know about my actual phone.
Desktop and mobile work fine with a VPN if you're not logged in, or if you create a new account. I've been using Mullvad VPN with an offshore server and it works just fine
They were never going to ban it, they just needed Dems to do it first so they could "save" it.
Luckily, there's a new alternative that's rising from the ashes.
@skylight.social is the name.
With Fox, Rogan, Elon, Zuck and others channeling their lies they’ll get their base to believe it.
making them boatloads of cash. And that’s all they care about.
But… good riddance.
The Chinese government had their hacking experts “help out” with coding the TikTok app to gather as much of *your* private information as possible.
Apparently this didn’t disturb anyone in the U.S. until now.
China can’t hurt me more than my own government already has.
That’s how low the bar is.
Which is the problem with this whole “trust me bro” state of national security.
They did not need to shut it down - this is intended to let their orange turd and savior swoop in deus ex machina.
And the worst thing, is people won’t remember that all of it is his doing, they’ll only remember that he brought it back.
So many unforced errors. It’s exhausting.
I'm wondering if creating a new account not linked to a U.S. IP or telephone number not through the app may work.
I had TOR suggested. Haven’t had the brainspace to try that.
The 2025 equivalent to the immediate post-innauguration Iran hostage release.
No, Chaya Raichik has never cared about logic and her posts haven’t been primarily about Tiktok videos for a while.
Her hate and stupidity will endure because millions of Americans share it.
Elmo won’t have a say.
And Donnie still has his own competing website to think about...
https://bsky.app/profile/radicalkjax.com/post/3lg2yfwtcx22l
They don’t have to change anything to make Trump the great savior and help keep the republicans in power. They only needed that one line.
Congress wouldn’t lift a finger when literally half the country had their social security numbers exposed on the dark web. But TikTok says Palestinians are human, actually and it’s all weapons drawn at them.
I did go on a US VPN and it says you can access your stuff to download, apparently. 🤷♀️