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在 TikTok 上，用戶嘲笑美國即將實施的禁令
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/business/tiktok-ban.html
在最高法院作出裁決之前，他們嘲笑美國對這款中國擁有的應用程序的國家安全擔憂。
上周，美國最高法院外的一張貼紙和一枚別針表達了對 TikTok 的支持。
作者：Madison Malone KircherSapna Maheshwari 和 Sheera Frenkel
2025 年 1 月 16 日發布2025 年 1 月 17 日更新
在過去一周，來自美國各地的用戶開始在 TikTok 上發布這些視頻。
他們都拿同一件事開玩笑：這款應用與中國的聯係如何使其成為國家安全威脅。許多人暗示，他們的 TikTok 賬戶都被指派了一名中國政府特工通過該應用監視他們——用戶會想念他們的私人間諜。
“願我們來世再相見，”一位用戶在一段視頻中寫道，視頻背景是惠特尼·休斯頓翻唱的多莉·帕頓的《我將永遠愛你》。視頻中包括一張人工??智能生成的中國軍官圖像。
這些視頻隻是 TikTok 每月 1.7 億美國用戶中的一些人的反應之一，他們準備讓這款應用最早在周日從美國消失。
最高法院將對一項聯邦法律作出裁決，該法律要求 TikTok 的中國所有者字節跳動在 1 月 19 日之前出售該應用，否則將在美國被禁。美國官員表示，中國可能會利用 TikTok 收集美國人的私人數據並傳播秘密的虛假信息。 TikTok 曾表示出售是不可能的，並對法律提出質疑，目前正在等待最高法院的回應。
法官可能會支持這項法律，這在應用程序上引發了明顯的悲傷和黑色幽默。一些用戶發布了視頻，建議使用技術手段規避禁令。其他人則下載了另一款中國應用程序小紅書（也稱為“Red Note”），以嘲笑美國政府對 TikTok 與中國關係的擔憂。
這些視頻凸顯了去年國會在廣泛支持下通過的法律與 TikTok 的日常用戶之間在網上發生的衝突，他們對這款應用可能很快就會消失感到沮喪。
“現在我的 TikTok 動態消息中，大部分都是 TikTokers 嘲笑美國政府，TikTokers 感謝他們的中國間諜，以此作為一種嘲笑，”喬治城大學法學和技術教授、新技術全球監管專家 Anupam Chander 說。 “TikTok 用戶意識到他們不太可能被任何人操縱。他們實際上對自己收到的信息相當了解。”
TikTok 拒絕就用戶提及其與中國的關係發表評論。
一些用戶不願意輕易放棄這款應用——或者他們所謂的間諜。
據《紐約時報》報道，過去一周，數百個 TikTok 視頻記錄了青少年如何繼續在美國使用該應用。其中最流行的方法之一是使用 VPN，即虛擬專用網絡，它可以掩蓋用戶的位置，使其看起來好像用戶在其他地方。
TikTok 用戶 Sasha Casey 在最近發布的一段視頻中表示：“他們實際上不能在美國禁止 TikTok，因為 VPN 並沒有被禁止。”該視頻獲得了超過 6 萬次點讚。“使用 VPN。並在使用時向國會發送一張照片，因為我會這麽做。”
雖然 VPN 可以讓手機、筆記本電腦或其他電子設備看起來位於遠程位置，但目前尚不清楚該技術是否可以規避禁令。設備的真實位置存儲在許多地方，包括用於下載 TikTok 的應用商店。
許多 TikTok 用戶下載了另一款中國社交媒體應用小紅書。圖片來源：Adek Berry/法新社 — Getty Images
TikTok 粉絲似乎也是小紅書突然流行起來的原因，小紅書是周二和周三美國 Apple Store 下載次數最多的免費應用。中國有數億人使用這款應用，它和 TikTok 一樣，以短視頻和基於文本的帖子為特色。小紅書在普通話中的意思是“小紅書”。
Chander 先生預計最高法院本周將維持禁令，但他相信 TikTok 勝訴。他說，Red Note 和中國間諜表情包的下載表明，許多美國人不同意政府的安全擔憂，尤其是以犧牲言論自由為代價。
“當美國關閉一項大規模的言論自由服務時，我們的民主盟友並沒有關閉這項服務，這將使我們成為審查者，並使我們處於壓製言論的不尋常境地，”錢德先生說。“這將使使用 TikTok 的美國人真正不相信美國政府代表他們的最佳利益。”
麥迪遜·馬龍·基爾徹 (Madison Malone Kircher) 是《紐約時報》記者
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Sheera Frenkel 是駐舊金山灣區的記者，報道技術如何影響日常生活，重點關注社交媒體公司，包括 Facebook、Instagram、Twitter、TikTok、YouTube、Telegram 和 WhatsApp。更多關於 Sheera Frenkel 的信息
On TikTok, Users Mock Looming U.S. Ban
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/business/tiktok-ban.html
Ahead of a Supreme Court ruling, they are mocking U.S. national security concerns about the Chinese-owned app.
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Over the last week, the videos started appearing on TikTok from users across the United States.
They all made fun of the same thing: how the app’s ties to China made it a national security threat. Many implied that their TikTok accounts had each been assigned an agent of the Chinese government to spy on them through the app — and that the users would miss their personal spies.
“May we meet again in another life,” one user wrote in a video goodbye set to Whitney Houston’s cover of Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You.” The video included an A.I.-generated image of a Chinese military officer.
The videos were just one way that some of TikTok’s 170 million monthly U.S. users were reacting as they prepared for the app to disappear from the country as soon as Sunday.
The Supreme Court is set to rule on a federal law that required TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the app by Jan. 19 or face a ban in the United States. U.S. officials have said China could use TikTok to harvest Americans’ private data and spread covert disinformation. TikTok, which has said a sale is impossible and challenged the law, is now awaiting the Supreme Court’s response.
The possibility that the justices will uphold the law has set off a palpable sense of grief and dark humor across the app. Some users have posted videos suggesting ways to circumvent a ban with technological workarounds. Others have downloaded another Chinese app, Xiaohongshu, also known as “Red Note,” to thumb their noses at the U.S. government’s concerns about TikTok’s ties to China.
The videos highlight the collision taking place online between the law, which Congress passed with wide support last year, and everyday users of TikTok, who are dismayed that the app may soon disappear.
“Much of my TikTok feed now is TikTokers ridiculing the U.S. government, TikTokers thanking their Chinese spy as a form of ridicule,” said Anupam Chander, a professor of law and technology at Georgetown University and an expert on the global regulation of new technologies. “TikTokers recognize that they are not likely to be manipulated by anyone. They are actually quite sophisticated about the information they’re receiving.”
TikTok declined to comment on the users’ references to its ties to China.
Some users are not willing to give up the app — or their supposed spies — so easily.
Hundreds of TikTok videos over the last week have cataloged how teenagers could keep using the app in the United States, according to a review by The New York Times. One of the most popular methods described is the use of a VPN, or a virtual private network, which can mask a user’s location and make it appear that the person is elsewhere.
“They can’t actually ban TikTok in the U.S. because VPNs are not banned,” Sasha Casey, a TikTok user, said in a recent video that was liked over 60,000 times. “Use a VPN. And send a picture to Congress while you do it, because that’s what I’ll be doing.”
While VPNs can make it appear that a phone, a laptop or another electronic device is in a remote location, it is not clear if the technology can circumvent the ban. A device’s real location is stored in many places, including in the app store that was used to download TikTok.
Many TikTok users have downloaded another Chinese social media app, Xiaohongshu, or “Red Note.”Credit...Adek Berry/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
TikTok fans also seem to be behind the sudden surge in popularity for Xiaohongshu, the most downloaded free app on Tuesday and Wednesday in the U.S. Apple Store. Hundreds of millions of people in China use the app, which, like TikTok, features short videos and text-based posts. Xiaohongshu means “little red book” in Mandarin.
Mr. Chander anticipates that the Supreme Court will uphold the ban law this week, though he believes that TikTok has the winning case. He said the downloads of Red Note and the Chinese spy memes showed that many Americans did not agree with their government’s security concerns, particularly at the expense of free speech.
“When the United States shutters a massive free expression service, which our democratic allies have not shuttered, it will make us the censor and put us in the unusual position of silencing expression,” Mr. Chander said. “It will make Americans who use TikTok really distrustful of the U.S. government as carrying their best interests.”
Madison Malone Kircher is a Times reporter covering internet culture. More about Madison Malone Kircher
Sapna Maheshwari reports on TikTok, technology and emerging media companies. She has been a business reporter for more than a decade. Contact her at sapna@nytimes.com. More about Sapna Maheshwari
Sheera Frenkel is a reporter based in the San Francisco Bay Area, covering the ways technology impacts everyday lives with a focus on social media companies, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, Telegram and WhatsApp. More about Sheera Frenkel
