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> Because TikTok is a software asset of a foreign adversary known to engage in covert activities and which is diametrically opposed ideologically with nearly ev
by akhilcacharya 6y ago
> Because TikTok is a software asset of a foreign adversary known to engage in covert activities and which is diametrically opposed ideologically with nearly everything the U.S. (however flawed) stands for.
You can make the same argument to ban Facebook because of its use by the GRU, and it would be equally silly.
- jtdev 6y agoWhat is the GRU? Do you understand that Facebook is in fact an American owned and operated entity?
- akhilcacharya 6y agoSee here: https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf FB is a American owned an operated, but clearly if state actors have access (as they did at Twitter [0]) it hardly matters. [0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-twitter-employees-charged-with-spying-for-saudi-arabia-by-digging-into-the-accounts-of-kingdom-critics/2019/11/06/2e9593da-00a0-11ea-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-twit...