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.
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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