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TikTok is also banned for the entire country in the world's largest nation: India.

https://mashable.com/article/tiktok-ban-countries

It's also banned for the entire country in Nepal and Somalia. And oh yeah, it also seems to be effectively banned in one more very large country.

China.

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Ah yes Nepal and Somalia, the USA is in good company.

Point being: TikTok is already banned for 1,464,000,000 people.

That's about 18% of the population of earth.

And if you count the population of China, that's another 1,412,000,000 people. So it's more like 36%...

That's literally just all the population of India, an autocratic state where they turn off Internet for the entire population when kids take tests to curb cheating. We don't want to be a country like that.

Is that uncommon? Like with healthcare insurance, capital punishment etc.

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