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Ok, so you think the government should police every app and if they are developed in a country they consider to be adversarial, then they should ban it? Do you

• mrguyorama 4y ago
  Don't put words in my mouth, I didn't say "every" app. There are lots of infrastructure you don't want to give away essentially. A flashlight app? Yeah that's probably fine. Gambling? Sure go ahead chinese companies and take people's money for your mobile game. What if splunk was a chinese company? For example, I think we should continue to discuss whether zoom is trustworthy, didn't they get caught routing (maybe accidentally) most stuff through china? Facebook once purposely manipulated depressed kids by adjusting what was shown to them in their feed. They should have been burned down the second that happened, and no country should allow that nonsense, even if you trust the american legal system to work. In much the same way, we should not trust tiktok, as chinese companies are incredibly opaque, so we would have a much harder time finding red flags to key us in to any nefarious activity. In the same way, we probably shouldn't let a secretive private company have a thumb on the scale of a significant amount of american life. If we only have the political capital to ban tiktok right now because "China bad" then oh well, sometimes doing the right thing for the wrong reason is okay, like when Trump pushed for transparency in medical pricing. I don't think a free market health system is a workable system, but that was still a beneficial step in our current system. Others say all this talk is cover because the actual law being discussed is much more draconian and gross. I would not be in favor of that.