Comment by mplanchard
18 hours ago
If it reaches more than 1 million monthly active American users, it too can be subject to the same scrutiny under the law in question.
18 hours ago
If it reaches more than 1 million monthly active American users, it too can be subject to the same scrutiny under the law in question.
CCP: let's create 200 apps where each app has just less than 1 million active; and then cross-content across the apps so you are sort of browsing a single site. Maybe China will finally bring federated social media.
It runs and operates outside US. How exactly would you enforce the ban? Seize the domain?
> runs and operates outside US
…same as TikTok. Removed from app stores.
I don’t know the details of this app’s corporate structure, but if it’s developed here and user data stays here it would not qualify under the act. Based on the context of your and other comments I assumed it was also a foreign-controlled app
The REDnot is not a "foreign-controlled" app, it's a foreign app, and it does not target the US market. The US citizens chose to use a non-US app. How would US enforce a ban? Send marines to Shanghai and capture CEOs?
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They will levy fines on google and apple if they don't remove it from their stores.
Sanctioning advertisers would be the first step.