[Teever]

If banning Tik Tok is an easy political stunt then why has this spawned a couple several thousand comment posts in the last 48 hours alone?

[krapp]

Because if there are two subjects HN cannot resist pontificating on at length, it's social media/the modern web and Sinopolitics. Add a dash of red team/blue team sniping and it's the perfect storm.

[saagarjha]

Easy in India. I’m sure they also debated it at length there. But they went through with it and it largely did nothing.