{"id":20188,"date":"2025-01-16T13:43:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20188"},"modified":"2025-01-16T16:35:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T16:35:53","slug":"on-tiktok-users-mock-looming-u-s-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20188","title":{"rendered":"On TikTok, Users Mock Looming U.S. Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ahead of a Supreme Court ruling, they are mocking U.S. national security concerns about the Chinese-owned app.<\/p>\n

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Over the last week, the videos started appearing on TikTok from users across the United States.<\/p>\n

They all made fun of the same thing: how the app\u2019s ties to China made it a national security threat. Many implied that their TikTok accounts had each been assigned an agent of the Chinese government to spy on them through the app \u2014 and that the users would miss their personal spies.<\/p>\n

\u201cMay we meet again in another life,\u201d one user wrote in a video goodbye<\/a> set to Whitney Houston\u2019s cover of Dolly Parton\u2019s \u201cI Will Always Love You.\u201d The video included an A.I.-generated image of a Chinese military officer.<\/p>\n

The videos were just one way that some of TikTok\u2019s 170 million monthly U.S. users were reacting as they prepared for the app to disappear from the country as soon as Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court is set to rule on a federal law that required TikTok\u2019s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the app by Jan. 19 or face a ban in the United States. U.S. officials have said China could use TikTok to harvest Americans\u2019 private data and spread covert disinformation. TikTok, which has said a sale is impossible and challenged the law, is now awaiting the Supreme Court\u2019s response.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The possibility that the justices will uphold the law has set off a palpable sense of grief and dark humor across the app. Some users have posted videos suggesting ways to circumvent a ban with technological workarounds. Others have downloaded another Chinese app, Xiaohongshu<\/a>, also known as \u201cRed Note,\u201d to thumb their noses at the U.S. government\u2019s concerns about TikTok\u2019s ties to China.<\/p>\n

The videos highlight the collision taking place online between the law, which Congress passed with wide support last year, and everyday users of TikTok, who are dismayed<\/a> that the app may soon disappear.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ahead of a Supreme Court ruling, they are mocking U.S. national security concerns about the Chinese-owned app.Over the last week, the videos started appearing on TikTok from users across the United States.They all made fun of the same thing: how the app\u2019s ties to China made it a national security threat. Many implied that their TikTok accounts had each been assigned an agent of the Chinese government to spy on them through the app \u2014 and that the users would miss their personal spies.\u201cMay we meet again in another life,\u201d one user wrote in a video goodbye set to Whitney Houston\u2019s cover of Dolly Parton\u2019s \u201cI Will Always Love You.\u201d The video included an A.I.-generated image of a Chinese military officer.The videos were just one way that some of TikTok\u2019s 170 million monthly U.S. users were reacting as they prepared for the app to disappear from the country as soon as Sunday.The Supreme Court is set to rule on a federal law that required TikTok\u2019s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the app by Jan. 19 or face a ban in the United States. U.S. officials have said China could use TikTok to harvest Americans\u2019 private data and spread covert disinformation. TikTok, which has said a sale is impossible and challenged the law, is now awaiting the Supreme Court\u2019s response.The possibility that the justices will uphold the law has set off a palpable sense of grief and dark humor across the app. Some users have posted videos suggesting ways to circumvent a ban with technological workarounds. Others have downloaded another Chinese app, Xiaohongshu, also known as \u201cRed Note,\u201d to thumb their noses at the U.S. government\u2019s concerns about TikTok\u2019s ties to China.The videos highlight the collision taking place online between the law, which Congress passed with wide support last year, and everyday users of TikTok, who are dismayed that the app may soon disappear.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20190,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20191,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20188\/revisions\/20191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}