They will frame it as if they are protecting the average person.

The justification that will be used to stop offering the foreign based video platform, will be national security and user privacy.

They will frame it as if they are protecting the average person.

There are privacy concerns, but the concerns are that the big companies here want that technology for themselves.

The same amount of privacy will be given up by users.

The other thing the powers that be hate, are people making money and getting to live independently.

TikTok

YouTube Shorts

TikTok competitor YouTube Shorts is integrating more closely with YouTube Music

Music is a powerful force in the short-form video sphere — so powerful that it can resurrect a 37-year-old Kate Bush song. Today, YouTube Shorts announced that it will integrate songs you’ve saved on YouTube or YouTube Music into the video app. You can also save songs that you hear on Shorts to listen to later.

When you watch a YouTube Short, you can tap the sound button in the bottom right corner, which — like TikTok — brings you to a page of Shorts that also use the sound. Now a “save” icon will also appear on that page, allowing you to revisit the song later on YouTube or YouTube Music in a playlist called “Sounds from Shorts.” Conversely, if you hear a song that you want to use in a Short later, you can save it to that playlist to access from Shorts.

With Sounds on Shorts, YouTube is finally taking advantage of what it has that TikTok doesn’t: an entire repository of YouTube videos and a music streaming service. But TikTok is supposedly eyeing a potential streaming service itself. In May, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance filed a trademark application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in May for a service called “TikTok Music.” The filing suggests that the trademark could be applied to a mobile app that would allow users to purchase, play, share and download music. – Source