I imagine if ByteDance can't/won't divest, their US presence will dissolve: App store and server contracts are orphaned if not explicitly voided. But then what?

tiktok.com will still exist, albeit hosted outside the US. Would the government insist Verisign revoke the domain? If so, there's always other TLDs.

Then what? Compelling DNS providers to block certain domains ala EU piracy bans? Well, there's always DNS providers outside of the US, or doing the recursive lookups yourself.

And then? Compelling ISPs to block IPs aka the UK? Well, then what about VPNs/proxies/Tor?

I guess I see this as a slippery slope to a Great Firewall of America. I can't imagine most people will care, but it leaves the Internet in a pretty sad state.

On the other hand, maybe this will inspire the next generation to work on more decentralized platforms.