Sept 18 (Reuters) - A group of 18 state attorneys general said on Monday they backed Montana’s effort to ban Chinese-owned short video app TikTok, urging a U.S. judge to reject legal challenges ahead of the Jan. 1 effective date.
Sept 18 (Reuters) - A group of 18 state attorneys general said on Monday they backed Montana’s effort to ban Chinese-owned short video app TikTok, urging a U.S. judge to reject legal challenges ahead of the Jan. 1 effective date.
The closest I can think of is Napster and LimeWire, but I’m not sure if those died because of government action, or just civil lawsuits.
Then again, as pointed out, TikTok is not from an American company, so that’s irrelevant.
But I’m talking about Apple being banned from distributing or, and Apple is a US company.
If you’re concerned about stores, we have plenty of regulations around certain types of content. For example, if something infringes copyright, it must be pulled. I think there’s something in the law about porn as well. Some states disallow gambling apps.
All of those hit Apple and Google Play, as well as other app stores.
I hear you, but those are classes of apps, not specific apps. And none of those laws would appear to apply to TikTok.
Surely “sends data to a foreign adversarial government” is on the books somewhere.
Perhaps, but Chrome does the same every time you hit a Russian website.
That’s an entirely different thing though, and it’s like saying the government should block the Play Store because you can use it to download TikTok. The Russian website example is more like the government requiring ISPs to block certain domains, or requiring DNS services to change their nameservers, and we already do that with DMCA takedowns.
Apple hasn’t been banned from anything and they have nothing to do with this. What’s your point?
So they won’t be banned from distributing TikTok in the app store?