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Re:U.S. Judge Halts TikTok Ban by akhilcacharya on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @03:39PM (#25351028)
> Because TikTok is a software asset of a foreign adversary known to engage in covert activities and which is diametrically opposed ideologically with nearly everything the U.S. (however flawed) stands for.

You can make the same argument to ban Facebook because of its use by the GRU, and it would be equally silly.

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Re:U.S. Judge Halts TikTok Ban by jtdev on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @03:52PM (#25351198)
What is the GRU? Do you understand that Facebook is in fact an American owned and operated entity?
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Re:U.S. Judge Halts TikTok Ban by akhilcacharya on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:28PM (#25361955)
See here: https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf

FB is a American owned an operated, but clearly if state actors have access (as they did at Twitter [0]) it hardly matters.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-twit...

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