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pic-of-the-litter t1_jaebl14 wrote

It's because TikTok is being used to educate and organize progressive and anti-establishment movements, proliferate news and ideologies that are a threat to US business interests, and expose corruption and malice within the US/western Hegemony. The kids are thinking too much, gotta ban the clock app!

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defaultusername-17 t1_jaeyqml wrote

literally only applies to government devices.

you're free to have it on your iphone if you want. this is about preventing a program with known backdoors onto devices that aught to be kept secure.

pretty ridiculous that this is even controversial considering that china does the exact same thing (and so much more) in regards to US based apps (like they're trying to threaten twitter with atm).

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pic-of-the-litter t1_jaf41m8 wrote

They've also been considering a nationwide ban, but decided to just start with Gov't devices. The more you can say "evil bad china is spying on us" the more dipshits you can hoodwink into banning it universally. Regardless of how US based social media sites also spy upon us, sell our data, and cooperate with law enforcement to harass leftist movements and organizers.

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