Indonesia suspended TikTok’s platform registration after ByteDance allegedly refused to hand over complete traffic, streaming, and monetization data tied to live streams used during protests. The move could cut off an app with over 100 million Indonesian accounts, unless the company accepts national data‑access demands.
— It shows how states can enforce data sovereignty and police protest‑adjacent activity by weaponizing platform registration, reshaping global norms for access, privacy, and speech.
BeauHD
2025.12.04
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That idea shows how states can force platform data access by suspending registration; here AT&T leverages app‑store rules and legal process to constrain T‑Mobile’s data‑harvesting feature, illustrating a private analog to the same leverage—platform registration and review as enforcement levers over data practices.
BeauHD
2025.12.02
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The Reuters report fits this idea: India’s confidential directive to force smartphone makers to preload a government cyber‑safety app (and ensure its functions aren’t disabled) is a form of regulatory leverage over platforms and device ecosystems, analogous to Indonesia’s use of registration to extract data and compliance noted in the existing idea.
BeauHD
2025.12.02
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404 Media’s finding that offshore annotators review US surveillance footage highlights the same power play over access to platform data that the Indonesia‑TikTok case illustrates—who gets platform data and under what national rules is a governance lever with national‑security and privacy consequences.
EditorDavid
2025.11.29
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Like national registration demands used to extract data or compliance from platforms, this case shows how registry rules and who controls registration (Afrinic vs. offshore companies) become leverage points — except here the leverage was exercised via litigation and banking freezes, demonstrating another vector by which registry policy shapes access and who benefits.
msmash
2025.11.29
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This Reuters report concretely illustrates the same mechanism: regulators using platform designation and registration to demand access or impose requirements (here via the EU’s Digital Markets Act) — analogous to how Indonesia suspended TikTok over data‑access demands; Apple’s contestation shows platform resistance to using registration/designation as leverage over platform data and practices.
BeauHD
2025.10.04
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Alexander Sabar (Indonesian communications ministry) said TikTok’s registration was suspended over incomplete data on live‑stream traffic and monetization connected to gambling during national protests.