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So, what would have happened if they UMW had blocked Yik Yak on their network and students continued to use it (since its a smartphone app) on their phones usin

by kayfox 8y ago

So, what would have happened if they UMW had blocked Yik Yak on their network and students continued to use it (since its a smartphone app) on their phones using cellular data?

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csydas 8y ago
The actual Court Opinion misrepresented the actual block option. When YikYak was actually running, a proper block request could be sent to the company to blackout the GPS coordinates of a University from the app, effectively killing the local YikYak community. The app worked based on GPS proximity -- you had to be within 1.5 miles of a given university in order to participate in the "herd" as they called it. This added a lot of character to each individual herd, even if all the groups essentially just reposted the same memes from 4chan/reddit non-stop, but with their own local flavor attached. YikYak had for some time been cooperating with schools and universities to perform the blackouts and even advertised it as a means of compliance and battling harassment through the app. Had a blackout request been made, it would have been effective and the above question would not have been relevant.
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