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Re:South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices by cauthon on Friday December 02, 2022 @04:57PM (#33837499)
The primary source of your "further reading" article is Tucker Carlson. Not saying the claim is incorrect, but are there any trustworthy sources supporting it?
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Re:South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices by gjsman-1000 on Friday December 02, 2022 @05:09PM (#33837616)
Yes. https://www.china-briefing.com/news/china-passes-sweeping-re...

If you want to verify it yourself, go to China, open Douyin. Plus, the story makes internal sense - for example, pornography and the kind of soft-core porn, heavily revealing clothing, and so forth that appears on TikTok is actually illegal in China. Post it, you'd get it censored and removed.

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Re:South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices by the_lonely_road on Friday December 02, 2022 @05:31PM (#33837867)
You should see the porn on Reddit. This is an American consumer issue not a foreign nation issue.
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Re:South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices by nonethewiser on Friday December 02, 2022 @05:15PM (#33837685)
Given that the source is corroborated, looks like the Tucker Carlson source can be trusted.

Your opinion on reputation is just that.

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Re:South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices by LordDragonfang on Friday December 02, 2022 @05:27PM (#33837817)
Liars are capable of telling the truth, but that doesn't mean you should assume what they say is true without corroboration.

https://www.politifact.com/personalities/tucker-carlson/

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Re:South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices by nonethewiser on Friday December 02, 2022 @10:54PM (#33840422)
The Tucker Carlson peice is accurate. A reasonable person would incorporate that in their opinion of the source.

Politifact "fact check", or really anything that calls itself s fact check, isn't a reliable proxy for forming opinion from primary sources.

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Re:South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices by hammock on Friday December 02, 2022 @06:24PM (#33838357)
The liberal deep state head of the fbi Chris Wray came out with similar comments today. What exactly do you need to be satisfied?
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