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Re:TikTok, Trump, and the Future of Open Source Surveillance by vkou on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @01:33PM (#24284883)
Someone living in America should care a lot more about their government spying on them, than some country half-way around the world. Their own government has the power of pit and gallows over them, after all.

The government, in the meantime, sets a dangerous precedent, by blocking a foreign social app. It gives a great justification for other countries to block American social apps for similar reasons.

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Re:TikTok, Trump, and the Future of Open Source Surveillance by microcolonel on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @02:38PM (#24285726)
> It gives a great justification for other countries to block American social apps for similar reasons.

That's up to them; when it comes to PRC at least, banning American social media is the norm.

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Re:TikTok, Trump, and the Future of Open Source Surveillance by anniefrost on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:38AM (#24291366)
American social media was banned because they didn't want to follow the law and rules in China. While TikTok followed every regulation to the local law and rules in the US.

Now the US are forcing to sell or blocked every single non-american company whom already complied to all their law and rules, truly the first country in history doing this.

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Re:TikTok, Trump, and the Future of Open Source Surveillance by vkou on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @02:49PM (#24285834)
The EU should do the same thing, for the exact same reasons.
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