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>> ... being banned essentially on executive whim: The US Senate unanimously approved a bill banning federal employees from using TikTok on government-issued
by tooltalk 6y ago
>> ... being banned essentially on executive whim:
The US Senate unanimously approved a bill banning federal employees from using TikTok on government-issued devices last month. So there is some consensus among lawmakers that some sort of privacy and/or security threat exists -- it's hardly on "executive whim."
- howlgarnish 6y agoYou're tautologically correct (TikTok is banned because TikTok is banned!), but that still doesn't answer the question. Put another way: if whatever Tiktok is doing represents a categorical privacy/security threat, then why aren't they banning all apps that engage in said activity, instead of just Tiktok? I suspect the answer is that Tiktok is just doing the same as Facebook etc, and that's unacceptable only because the mined data might go to China.
- gabaix 6y agoIt is quite likely the US will continue to look at companies on which CCP can have control over. I agree it is odd to not have made a more comprehensive list.
- lowiqengineer 6y agoThose two examples are fundamentally different and it’s silly to conflate individual action with coercing the app stores to discontinue supporting the app.