return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agoDuolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNotetechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1246arrow-down122cross-posted to: news@lemmy.worldnews@beehaw.orgduolingo@sopuli.xyzworldnews@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1224arrow-down1external-linkDuolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNotetechcrunch.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agomessage-square79fedilinkcross-posted to: news@lemmy.worldnews@beehaw.orgduolingo@sopuli.xyzworldnews@lemmy.ml
minus-squareTankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-29 hours agoJust as I finally see Chinese culture gaining more global cultural relevance— and it had to be in order to bypass a ban of an intrusive app.
minus-squareByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 hours agoGotta rise up to that Firefly/Serenity lore.
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down8·5 hours agothe app wasn’t banned, the company refused to split American operations off.
minus-squareBronzebeard@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·3 hours ago… And because they refused, is now banned. So, yes it was.
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 hours agono, they were given the option. split into two companies close down operations in the US that’s pretty cut a dry they chose to end operations in the US. The US didn’t ban them.
Just as I finally see Chinese culture gaining more global cultural relevance— and it had to be in order to bypass a ban of an intrusive app.
Gotta rise up to that Firefly/Serenity lore.
the app wasn’t banned, the company refused to split American operations off.
… And because they refused, is now banned.
So, yes it was.
no, they were given the option.
that’s pretty cut a dry they chose to end operations in the US. The US didn’t ban them.