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Why would you want this? It literally eats your time for small dopamine rushes. There is nothing good about TikTok.
Except it is completely wrong to have governments be engaging in censorship. I don't have a lot of control but I think it is important to bypass it on a massive scale. We need to make this into a laughing stock. I would normally be against using Ticktok but censorship is far worse.
Governments are the only entities that should engage in censorship, and the ban of TikTok in the US also has nothing to do with censorship but non-compliance of court decisions.
People without tiktok apparently
"How to get around Tik Tok actively banning US Users despite H. R. 7521 not being enforced" FTFY.
TikTok themselves are blocking these users from the platform on purpose.
I discovered this after the fact
No offense but there are far too many users who are assuming this is because of the "ban", who haven't read the law or the bill and don't functionally understand what's going on. And Tik Tok themselves are taking advantage of that. Spreading misinformation (however unintentional) doesn't help here and is actively hurting users of the platform and people who want privacy law reform.
So can we amend the title of this post to factually reflect the situation?
I'm told VPNs aren't working by friends with accounts who've tried.
Yeah, you can supposedly make a new account through a browser and using an email (or an international phone # if you have one). But I've heard from someone living in Korea, who no longer have a US phone # on their account who is now unable to access their account, because at one time it was associated with a US phone number.
Ah hah! Thank you.