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On banning Tik Tok
CC27:
--- Quote ---edhopper
On banning Tik Tok
which I support because it is mainly a data mining app for the Chinese Government which also has videos.
Do people really think Silicon Valley is incapable of coming up with a video sharing app to replace it?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218890717
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DUmmies love banning stuff
USA4ME:
FBI Director Christopher Wray: “TikTok, for us, represents a national security concern.”
In the meanwhile, this dimwit is not pushing Dementia Joe to close the border where actual terrorists walk into the U.S.
Wray's words are a bunch of baloney.
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enslaved1:
I'm torn. TikTok is at least collecting and feeding tons of data directly to the Chicoms, including things like location data and images from government employee phones, including when they are in secure locations with said phones that have the app installed. At worst it's a Chicom psyop, dumbing down Americans (especially da youts) and spreading misinformation. However, banning apps is not easy, and it's very debatable if the feds have the Constitutional power to even try.
However, Fed employees, especially military, should absolutely be banned from having the app on any official device, and can probably be told to leave their personal devices with the app at home, away from any government building/worksite/ect.
Should Congress be focusing more on other things? Yes they should. Is this app an issue that needs to be looked at? Yes it is, again, particularly on government devices and in government facilities.
CollectivismMustDie:
--- Quote from: enslaved1 on April 24, 2024, 11:18:31 AM ---I'm torn. TikTok is at least collecting and feeding tons of data directly to the Chicoms, including things like location data and images from government employee phones, including when they are in secure locations with said phones that have the app installed. At worst it's a Chicom psyop, dumbing down Americans (especially da youts) and spreading misinformation. However, banning apps is not easy, and it's very debatable if the feds have the Constitutional power to even try.
However, Fed employees, especially military, should absolutely be banned from having the app on any official device, and can probably be told to leave their personal devices with the app at home, away from any government building/worksite/ect.
Should Congress be focusing more on other things? Yes they should. Is this app an issue that needs to be looked at? Yes it is, again, particularly on government devices and in government facilities.
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Yet none of those are the reason that certain parts of our government want it banned.
They want it banned because unlike facebook and the like, it is beyond their control.
DefiantSix:
--- Quote from: CollectivismMustDie on April 24, 2024, 07:09:04 PM ---Yet none of those are the reason that certain parts of our government want it banned.
They want it banned because unlike facebook and the like, it is beyond their control.
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Actually they wanted the ban because there's a tiny little clause in the legislation that says they can do it to any other website that "raises similar concerns".
It was no more than allowing the camel's nose in under the tent wall.
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