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Re:The FBI alleges TikTok poses national security concerns by howmayiannoyyou on Friday November 18, 2022 @09:00AM (#33654787)
Surveillance isn't the primary issue. INFLUENCE OPERATIONS is. China's ability to direct content to achieve their strategic goals, and to do so at a very granular level, is too great a risk. Its not the only property with this capability (cough, 4chan/pol/, cough), but its by far the largest.
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Re:The FBI alleges TikTok poses national security concerns by pjc50 on Friday November 18, 2022 @09:02AM (#33654808)
Aren't influence operations free speech?

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Re:The FBI alleges TikTok poses national security concerns by howmayiannoyyou on Friday November 18, 2022 @09:15AM (#33654992)
Yes. So is yelling 'fire' in a crowded theatre. Nothing is without limits, and with out limits we are nothing.
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Re:The FBI alleges TikTok poses national security concerns by tbihl on Friday November 18, 2022 @09:35AM (#33655285)
>So is yelling 'fire' in a crowded theatre.

A course of action so blatantly legal that a Supreme Court Justice used it as an example for what is clearly allowed, dislikeable though it may be.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_t...

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Re:The FBI alleges TikTok poses national security concerns by zip1234 on Friday November 18, 2022 @12:30PM (#33658239)
There is no right for foreign governments to have free speech in the US. If they are outside of the US they do not get US rights.
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Re:The FBI alleges TikTok poses national security concerns by CyanBird on Friday November 18, 2022 @09:20AM (#33655058)
> China's

Tiktok is not China, Tiktok is owned by a private company

All the arguments that you are using can be successful leveraged against any Inqtel funded private company (of which there are plenty), so I'd recommend you to speak in a measured way

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Re:The FBI alleges TikTok poses national security concerns by sgu999 on Friday November 18, 2022 @09:48AM (#33655487)
In China, private companies large enough cannot operate without a fair amount of control and involvement of some layer of the CCP. https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/china-business...
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Re:The FBI alleges TikTok poses national security concerns by xadhominemx on Friday November 18, 2022 @10:50AM (#33656462)
Absolutely not. China is an authoritarian state with no rule of law other than what the CCP says goes. There are no meaningful firewalls between corporate operations and the Chinese government.
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