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Offline CC27

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On banning Tik Tok
« on: April 24, 2024, 08:55:32 AM »
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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?

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Re: On banning Tik Tok
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2024, 09:01:44 AM »
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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Re: On banning Tik Tok
« Reply #2 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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Re: On banning Tik Tok
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2024, 07:09:04 PM »
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.

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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Re: On banning Tik Tok
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2024, 07:44:41 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.

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".

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Re: On banning Tik Tok
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2024, 08:08:22 PM »
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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Re: On banning Tik Tok
« Reply #6 on: Today at 06:07:33 AM »
Tic Tok is one of the leading causes of the stupifying of America, particularly the young people. Ban it.
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