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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.