Comment by raincole
16 hours ago
> This is going to be an interesting experiment: A widely used social network across the world WITHOUT american content.
For whom? UK users?
TikTok users who use the Chinese version are not consuming content from US creators. They won't notice this ban at all.
> For who? UK users?
Literally every TikTok user from around the world? There's more than just the US, UK, and China, y'know.
I think they meant that because content is siloed already by language barriers, the only ecosystem that would be affected by the removal of US users is the English-speaking subsystem.
That said, the English-speaking world clearly extends well beyond the US and English commonwealth countries nowadays. Also, a lot of videos don't have any dialogue and can also cross the language barrier.
2/3 of the global population doesn’t speak English.
TikTok content is mostly visual. My YouTube shorts are frequently foreign language with AI subtitles.
Also, TikTok is banned in India and—ironically—China [1].
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_TikTok
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English is literally the most commonly spoken language in the world. No language in the world will fit your criteria if you want more than two thirds of the global population to speak it.
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That doesn't sound accurate. Did you mean as a first language?
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As their first language, perhaps
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> TikTok users who use the Chinese version
The what now? There are no Chinese nationals using TikTok. It's banned there. Like it's now banned in the US.
Douyin is TikTok. Before all the drama started, it was the same software powered by most of the same backend servers.
Douyin is a fundamentally different product. Different content, less addictive, etc.
its fantastic for canada
Ah yes, USA, UK and China. The 3 countries that exist.