Hacker Remix
TikTok Is Down in the US
23 points by dblitt 14 hours ago | 7 comments
sans_souse 14 hours ago
Countdown til the "SHOW HN: Bypass Tik Tok's newly implemented region lock-out"
12 hrs? I'll probably take the under..
ChrisArchitect 14 hours ago
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42753396
Yawrehto 14 hours ago
Why is my brain blanking on all possible puns about TikTok's time running out?
Anyway, this feels early. Especially in California; they're banning four and a half hours before they need to, and I assume it's even earlier in Alaska and Hawaii. Even here in the East Coast they banned an hour and a half before it was needed.
ellisv 14 hours ago
The US Virgin Islands are an hour ahead of Eastern time.
colechristensen 14 hours ago
Well you don't want your engineers to be awake doing something at midnight Saturday, and you want some leeway if it doesn't work correctly so you don't have to deal with the consequences of breaking the law. Especially because there's significant pressure from your vendors who don't want to be liable.
Killing something only a few hours before it's legally required isn't early.
sans_souse 14 hours ago
This feels so gimmicky and political. It's just a platform. It's certainly not the only app on the Play Store that steals user data.
luckman212 3 hours ago
Is it still called stealing when the users carelessly whack the "allow" buttons and grant permission to the app to siphon up whatever it wants?