Anyone else see that Dept of Commerce is wholesale blocking downloads of TikTok and WeChat in the US beginning Sunday?
I'm not a TikTok fan, but I'm even less a fan of the US following China's lead with the Great Firewall. Today it's TikTok and WeChat, but what comes next? Slippery slope...
@PrivacyL0st I haven't been following this much (and don't really want to), but I don't understand how they will do this. We have an open Internet with plenty of connections thru other countries, and private companies host the app stores. In addition, it is not difficult to side load something to Android.
@Dashdrum The Dept of Commerce is effectively outlawing distribution of the SW and in a few weeks ISPs will be prohibited from facilitating connectivity to it
I haven't seen any tech write-ups, but I assume that they are either going to ignore the endpoint workarounds, or go ahead and attempt to establish some sort of national firewall or blackhole policy that ISPs are expected to implement. I don't know enough about the architecture at that scale to know if that's possible, thats my guess
@PrivacyL0st we'll see how it goes, I guess.