About 59% of Americans say TikTok a threat to the national security of the United States, according to a new survey of U.S. adults.

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    1 year ago

    You keep trying and failing to ban all social media while China continues to gain a foothold under the current unchanged rules. We’ll all be doing on the front lines of the next world war but at least in the end you can hold your head up high and say that it was worth it to take a stand.

    It’s like saying that you shouldn’t ban murder because all weapons should be banned. How they use it matters.

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      1 year ago

      In that analogy Facebook has been murdering people for a decade but we refuse to do anything about it.

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        1 year ago

        In that analogy, Facebook is armed but not even brandishing. People aren’t doing anything because Facebook isn’t waving their weapon around and threatening their families but instead was using their knives to cut up more food to sell you. Sorry, I’ll use a more clear analogy next time.

        We are talking about the preparation of the battlefield for the next conflict. It is pretty well documented in cyber warfare circles. conflicts are won and lost before they are fought. conflicts are mitigated when the chances of success are lower.

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          1 year ago

          Facebook has been giving data to the CCP for over a decade. If that’s the big bad, then that’s it. It doesn’t matter who owns the company. If you want to talk about battlefield shaping I can speak to that. I was in the military. When comes down to it I don’t care how the minefield got breached. It’s breached and there’s a hole that can be exploited. I don’t care if company A did it or company B.

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            1 year ago

            There’s giving data through API, and then there’s complete access to everything your device sees. It’s the difference between taking a trench and allowing your enemy to build a complete logistical hub behind your lines. It’s an order of magnitude worse.

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              1 year ago

              Have you looked at the permissions Meta requires to run an app on your phone these days?

              There is no difference. They’re taking everything.

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                  1 year ago

                  Neither is TikTok. Both of them are companies giving data to China. Why are you so invested in defending Meta?

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                    1 year ago

                    I’m not defending Meta. The level of access is an order of magnitude greater for China with TikTok. It’s not even comparable.