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The US pressured the Swedish government to close Pirate bay, sieze its servers etc. Tried to shut it for the whole world.

This is the country that banned Tiktok, inacted the DMCA. Apparently the US has blocked 1.2m websites since 2010. They sieze domains, sieze servers. They stop payment companies working for the sites.




And TikTok is still available in the US and on the app stores…


...for now




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