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Global, unless other countries ban an app that US can use to spy on them.

but is there a non-US version of TikTok then too? i don’t understand how the two versions interact is what i’m saying.

It can be the same exact app on your phone, but be communicating with a different set of network endpoints.

no i don’t think that works

i mean the US one would be wholly owned by someone with own dev team servers etc

the non-US one would have to be a separate app with own team too.

it doesn’t seem to work

If they are concerned about spyware they'll ban the China version much earlier than the American version by any reasonable threshold.