As the U.S. continues to flex its legislative muscle to ban TikTok, we explore if kicking Chinese company ByteDance’s social giant out of the country is even feasible.<\/p>\n
The U.S. added a TikTok ban onto a foreign aid package for Taiwan, Ukraine, and Israel<\/a>, which passed on April 23.<\/p>\n The politics behind the TikTok ban<\/a> and the potential for U.S. user data<\/a> being shared by TikTok with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have been debated and discussed extensively.<\/p>\n However, little has been said about how<\/em> the U.S. plans to build a digital barrier for TikTok.<\/p>\n Despite the technical challenges of stopping free internet flow, a wide range of countries, including Russia, China, and the Middle East, commonly block and censor different sites in their country.<\/p>\n But banning black-listed sites at a national scale is a more complex task than it may seem, especially as the most cost-effective methods can be easily bypassed.<\/p>\n Techopedia talked to experts to understand how the U.S. could block TikTok, how costly the technology is, how it works, and whether users can bypass the blockade easily.<\/p>\nKey Takeaways<\/span><\/h2>\n
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