The US government's plan to either ban TikTok or force owner ByteDance to sell it to a (US) company is part of Washington's economic war on China, and an att...
Anyone who’s used both Douyin and TikTok would see that the most salient differences are that the content is not shared and some regulatory details like requiring a Chinese number to register for Douyin.
I mean, TikTok is banned in China too, so what’s the problem?
It is not.
What other media do you want to ban americans from consuming?
Reality TV would be a good start.
ByteDance operates Douyin in China.
So? What are you trying to say?
Douyin and TikTok share like 90% of their codebase.
So? We share 98.8% of our code (DNA) with chimpanzees and you don’t see that there is a huge difference?
Conflating code with DNA is both absurd and insane. Most software does not have a common codebase. Most DNA does.
Ok I give up, have a nice day.
Anyone who’s used both Douyin and TikTok would see that the most salient differences are that the content is not shared and some regulatory details like requiring a Chinese number to register for Douyin.
If you haven’t, then you’re clueless.