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Russia banned tiktok and instagram etc. in early 2022. Curious to hear about just how that improved everyone's lives. Maybe the "real national security risks"
by dopa42365 3y ago
Russia banned tiktok and instagram etc. in early 2022. Curious to hear about just how that improved everyone's lives.
Maybe the "real national security risks" of funny dance or cat clips and pictures of your last meal were slightly exaggerated after all?
- aftbit 3y agoThe national security risks are three-fold: 1. Anyone who puts an app on your phone can track your behavior, especially your coarse location, but additionally (for TikTok) the trends that you follow. This is actually a huge security risk (affecting basically all devices with any 3rd party apps) that is generally ignored. 2. TikTok allows a foreign government to choose which topics trend which allows them to influence the political and social discourse of other countries. 3. TikTok could be used as a botnet or for network surveillance with a presence on many different LANs. These problems are mostly not specific to TikTok, but are indeed true for all apps. TikTok just happens to be the most popular app that is developed and managed outside of the USA, making the US more paranoid about it.