defaultusername-17 t1_jaeyqml wrote on February 28, 2023 at 11:14 PM

Reply to comment by pic-of-the-litter in China mocks TikTok ban on US government devices, asks why 'top superpower' fears 'young people app' by DarkNite166

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).

pic-of-the-litter t1_jaf41m8 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 11:52 PM

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.