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Re:UT-Austin blocks access to TikTok on campus Wi-Fi networks by rcme on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @06:30PM (#34421037)
Is your claim that all media is perfectly fungible so you don’t need to care about its content or origin and that media has no impact on your beliefs and psyche? That doesn’t sound reasonable to me.
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Re:UT-Austin blocks access to TikTok on campus Wi-Fi networks by randombits0 on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @08:44PM (#34422376)
No, I’m saying folks can choose what media they want. Are you suggesting that some media is so evil its availability shouldn’t be tolerated?

Yeah, no.

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Re:UT-Austin blocks access to TikTok on campus Wi-Fi networks by rcme on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @09:00PM (#34422496)
No, I'm not claiming that media is so evil it can't be tolerated. I'm claiming that there is a national security risk to letting an adversary control the information flow to the population. This has nothing to do with the contents of the media itself.
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Re:UT-Austin blocks access to TikTok on campus Wi-Fi networks by randombits0 on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:12PM (#34422992)
So run back to Facebook. Or Instagram. Or YouTube. Or Telegram. Or Discord. Or Reddit. Or …
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