So Mayo last week we told people to go to 9 to5 Mac.com

slash join and sign up for the new 9 to 5 Mac Happy Hour Plus and I just wanted to

thank everybody who did that because we've seen a good response and I think

people are enjoying the little bonus content and we'll have more bonus content today.

So yeah, thank you to everybody who went and subscribed.

Yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you, and our bonus content from last week was about social media and Tik-Tok and that's incredibly newsworthy all of a sudden because

didn't your government just pass a law about it to be banned or something

some of that effect?

It passed the House and it still has to go through the Senate, which is looking a lot more likely today than it looked yesterday that it would pass the Senate, then President Biden has said he will sign it.

But it's not like a ban, it's more gives bite dance what six five or six months I think to sell and if they don't then

they back on that again because they were going to sell to like Microsoft before right? Yeah that was a rumor and

oracle was a rumor at some point I think which is a really weird pairing but yeah

they're gonna get they're gonna get some sort of US corporate ownership, I guess, is probably how it's going to end up.

And then if they don't, then I think the burden is on Apple and Google to like remove it from the

App store, so we'll see.

Then the only way you've got to get Tik-Tok on the iPhone is with an old store in the

alternative app store, yeah.

Speaking of which?

Yeah, so all the time in the past, what, it's been like a month and a half that we've spent talking about the European Union, Epic Games, the Digital Markets Act.

Seems like we just waste time talking about something that it all changes by the next episode and we're here to do that again.

Yeah. So last week we talked about Apple banned Epic Games's new developer account,

it was specifically the Epic Games Sweden account

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