Comment by BrokenDownMiata on 15/01/2025 at 17:16 UTC

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View submission: TikTok reportedly plans ‘immediate’ Sunday shutdown in the US if it’s banned / The US federal ban will go into effect Sunday without a Supreme Court intervention.

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It is possible to completely ban an app based on geolocation data. You’d have to have a device purchased from outside of the USA, being used outside of the USA to be able to use RedNote under those conditions.

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Comment by ske66 at 17/01/2025 at 07:31 UTC

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True, but a VPN would obscure the geolocation data so there are easy ways to get around it

Comment by LittleMantle at 16/01/2025 at 02:22 UTC

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That sounds like an app-side restriction, why would red book do that

Comment by SpankySpankys at 15/01/2025 at 19:33 UTC

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Perfect excuse to import a Hauwei