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AndyB1976 t1_jag42gm wrote

Canada just did this also as did a few other countries I believe.

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Damerman t1_jag2q3o wrote

Thats fucking rich.

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BurrrritoBoy t1_jaggvy9 wrote

Oh, ok. We’ll Xi what we can do about that.

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uberbewb t1_jag4mjn wrote

Idk, that just seems stupid to be so obviously sucking on the TikTok data tit you try to call out another government for having technological device policies.
I wish these laws would force Windows to have their tracking garbage gutted too.

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oddkoffee t1_jaiki2b wrote

just pay one neurodivergent zellenial line cook to convert the government to their personal linux set-up and no one will ever crack it.

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DJSlimer t1_jag5y1i wrote

China should probably find out the meaning of abusing state power. Hmmm, maybe they could search on Goo... Oh wait.

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DrFoetusLtd t1_jag7uf8 wrote

Weird.. Almost like China desperately doesn't want to lose an invaluable tool for influencing the West or something

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walter_2000_ t1_jag7dnc wrote

Bam it for the entire country. It's fucking mind numbing macaroni and cheese for developing brains. There's nothing in that app and format that benefits anyone but an authoritarian country. Why was it ever allowed? Entertainment? That's the threshold for allowing an adversarial country to have unfettered access to the youth and idiot adults of the US? Seems like a low bar.

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oddkoffee t1_jailsn7 wrote

naw man there’s no reason to ban it for the entire country. they aren’t gleaning any info about regular people that isn’t already collected/sold/traded by literally every other big company, and there’s value in the ability to exchange information and knowledge easily, even if you don’t like the platform. but it - just like facebook, or what’s app, or any other opt-in privately-owned information-collection program - shouldn’t be allowed on government computers. google/amazon web services are way harder to get away from [which is its own problem] but banning voluntary social media sites that aggregate personal info and log key-presses/voice data from state hardware is pretty easy.

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jkekoni t1_jalrb8z wrote

That sounds like confession.

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