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US TikTok ban aims to weaken China & protect Big Tech monopolies (www.youtube.com)

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US TikTok ban aims to weaken China & protect Big Tech monopolies

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[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

ByteDance operates Douyin in China.

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So? What are you trying to say?

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Douyin and TikTok share like 90% of their codebase.

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So? We share 98.8% of our code (DNA) with chimpanzees and you don't see that there is a huge difference?

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Conflating code with DNA is both absurd and insane. Most software does not have a common codebase. Most DNA does.

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ok I give up, have a nice day.

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

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.