TikTok and WeChat will be banned from US app stores on Sunday

I must download WeChat at once. I will be the US farm troll for Chinese folk!

I hope all the successful, young TikTokers have some money saved up.

I don't know about the iphones, so this doesn't apply to the ghetto.

You can always pull the android install apps from web sites. No need for the store.

I thought microsoft was buying it? The young peeps will be really upset.

R3 How dare you equate android users to being ghetto racist troll. Android has many good features way better than iOS. Their premium phones rival iPhones. Go back to using your dumbed down boomer iPhone and pretend you are 'tech savvy'.

How do you picture ’s demise?

I envision some Margaret Hamilton realness oozing through the stoney cracks of his dungeon floor.

Can we do this same thing to Rupert’s “NEWS” programme?

Trump is not the American president America deserves. But he definitely is the American president China deserved

These ancient, out-of-touch politicians are so stupid, it makes me laugh and laugh. The younger generations know exactly how to get around these ridiculous "official" actions, and they will.

Read my post again, r5. The ghetto is littered with iphones. That is where I was throwing the shade.

It isn't that easy R9. To side load an app on Android is difficult and annoying (and purposefully so).

To load an app on iPhone not from the App Store requires jail breaking it, which is even more difficult than side loading on Android, plus prevents future updates, and may well brick the phone.

This will kill both apps in the U.S.

You don't have to side load it R11. That was what the teenager down the street showed you when "jail breaking" your fire tv device.

All you need is the APK file.

Now Trump well and truly lost the college vote.

R12 - exactly. Teens know a lot more about jailbreaking than the geezer predatory class.

Meant to put "jailbreaking" in quotes.

Trump is just butthurt because those TikTok KPop kids made a complete and total fool of him at Tulsa! Not that that's very hard..

What are the kids going to do without their TikTok?

Maybe - just maybe - this will get young people to get and vote for a change.

I'll miss the posts girls make with their hot(ter) brothers.

Yeah r14, you guys are hackers, NOT. GenZ is the most technically inept generation to date. The fact That you would even consider side loading as a hack is laughable.

And “jail breaking “ ? My 90 year old mother can do that.

[quote]And “jail breaking “ ? My 90 year old mother can do that.

And you are 75? Okay, boomer.

Show us the video of your near-death mom jailbreaking, or you are a lying geezer.

The app will still work for everybody who installed it on their smartphones. What will end on Sunday is having access to downloading (and installing it) and updates.

With a VPN the app can be downloaded and installed while pretending to be located outside the US.

R20 - oh you poor thing. You clearly know very little about younger generations. Also there's a reason "jailbreaking" is in quotes, dear. See if you can suss it out.

For a party that cries about freedoms and free will and big gubermint, this sure seems... inconsistent. It's also very... controlling. Is it actually legal? Why didn't Trump care as much when Facebook was stealing peoples' information?

All that will do is put a greater fire under the Millennials and Generation Z to vote Liberal.

It's like Trump and the GOP want to lose in a historical landslide not even Putin can prevent.

R25 Sure, or:

1) Foment so much discord that in an election win/'win' that they can clamp down on youth as 'Chinese agitators'

2) In a decisive enough election win, use that as the justification of clamping down on social media even more, as they've set this less-dubious precedent already.

r26. So many groups are angry at Trump. Either he will lose the election or Putin will cheat and give him the win and the US citizens will revolt. Either way Trump is going to lose. They will not go for his and the GOP's bullshit any longer. That election is the last straw before civil unrest.

Officer , upon hearing the news today.

Now where will I get my thirst traps and Michelin chef inspired recipes from?

R29, something else will likely spring up in its place.

Will this get the younger voters into the voting booth?

Probably only incrementally.

R31, for the 25 and under crowd, it probably has a higher chance of doing so than RBG.

So how is this different from China banning certain websites or socialist countries nationalizing private companies?

Just downloaded WeChat. Already had TikTok