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This won't ban anything. It's on the web. Just sideload the app and enjoy.

Remember we’re all in a tech bubble here. 99.9% of TikTok users don’t know what sideloading is.

Or the web

It's hard to overstate how much the coinciding rise of smartphones and growth of the internet has taught people that apps are the internet, if they have any notion of the internet at all.

Its a business. With ad and an e-commerce network to support that content. Without that connection, it will die.

True, but it could easily just shift to mining XMR in the background as users doomscroll and collect money without regulatory burden that way.

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