Can a TikTok Ban Be Effective with VPNs Readily Available?

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What steps?They don’t need to, the don’t know what Gasoline is or what it does but still put it in their car

I labeled the steps and you responded to them. The steps are: knowing or finding out VPNs exist, knowing or finding out what they do, knowing or finding out how to find a reliable one, knowing or finding out how to download and then use it.

And the gasoline comparison isn’t correct. People still know what gasoline does for them and where to get it. Not understanding the exact way something works isn’t the same as not understanding what it does for you.

To put it in perspective, a survey came out and showed that only 55% of the people spoken to knew what a VPN was and what it did. 15% had never even heard of them, leaving the rest to have heard of them, but not what they do.

Tons of people don’t even know what a VPN does.

And you’re providing a ton of steps here to learn what it is, learn where to find it, and learn how to use it. I’m not saying any of these steps are particularly difficult, but it is far more steps than what people are used to. Just clicking on one app they already had downloaded.

Humans are creatures of convenience over most other things. Something can be easy, but if it has a lot of steps, you’re going to see a lot of people refusing to do it and simply migrating to a different platform or past time.

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Have you actually used it? I use Rednote and you absolutely do not need to speak Chinese to use it. Account creation on there also isn’t difficult at all, the fields you enter information into are in English.

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Even the elites would use digital piracy for TV show episodes that are no longer available for any amount of money.

VPNs? If work is the exception, that includes jobs monitoring what foreign apps are using to pollute minds in countries other than the USA.

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All that shit is easy, just ask on reddit :slight_smile: If I’m around I’d answer.

Do you feel like having to go on Reddit and learn how to do something new is easier than simply clicking on an app or going to a different site? We’ve also still got that 45% who don’t know what VPNs do. If you don’t know something is even a thing, you’re going to have a harder time asking about it on Reddit.

Makes sense, didn’t need it before, do now

They don’t NEED it, though. That’s the point. A ton of people will forego all of those steps and just move to another platform.

I’m done discussing this because I’ve already laid out all of my points and I don’t feel like going in circles about it. Agree or don’t, have a good day.