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> It'd be very difficult for Montana to enforce the other piece of the TikTok ban

I don't know if it is technically and legally feasible in Montana, but you "just" need to block the endpoints that the app uses to fetch the data. It is not foolproof, but given that ByteDance probably has interest in keeping doing business in the rest of the USA, at least for now, it would be fineable in case it was trying to avoid the block.

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Technically and legally it's trivial and common.

They just ask any ISPs and telcos operating in the state to ban the URL.

But then TikTok can still detect your location. Unless you spoof that, remove the permission or patch the apk.

Then you still need to update almost daily to keep using it.

I doubt that e.g. mobile carriers have the infrastructure in place to do state-by-state website blocking. Of course we can conceive of the mechanism very simply in the abstract, but that doesn't necessarily mean that implementing it will be simple for them.

Blocked in my house with few rules in pi.hole. so definitely not a technical problem.

What happens if the kids use mobile data and not the house wifi?

They don't have it

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