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Re:Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action by dependenttypes on Friday July 31, 2020 @11:27PM (#24017168)
Under the Bernstein v. United States ruling software source code is protected under the 1st amendment, I do not know if this holds true for binaries as well though. I guess if TikTok distributed only its source code and it was compiled by the user the gov would be able to do nothing about it.
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Re:Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action by ISL on Friday July 31, 2020 @11:40PM (#24017251)
If TikTok distributed its source code, people would have a much clearer understanding of things that the app does and doesn't do.

One could not inspect the data flow after it left the client, but it would still show far more than we normally see from major social-media vendors.

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Re:Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action by tossaway69 on Friday July 31, 2020 @11:40PM (#24017255)
they could just block the servers, no?
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