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Re:About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in t... by DrBenCarson on Sunday January 19, 2025 @01:25AM (#42754276)
Uh the law specifically makes it illegal to distribute ByteDance apps

Apple and Google are at the whim of Congress here

Re:About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in t... by Lammy on Sunday January 19, 2025 @01:26AM (#42754293)
Don't care; doesn't supersede my right to general-purpose computing
Re:About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in t... by stouset on Sunday January 19, 2025 @01:36AM (#42754373)
Yes, if you live in the United States, our elected government has the ability to supersede your right to general-purpose computing which is—as far as I’m aware—not in either the Constitution, the bill of rights, nor in later amendments.
Re:About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in t... by Lammy on Sunday January 19, 2025 @01:39AM (#42754398)
If not then should be. I ANAL but Feels Like™ the 4th should cover it as the computer is an extension of my Self.
Re:About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in t... by DrBenCarson on Sunday January 19, 2025 @01:51AM (#42754489)
Lol no, access to executables produced by a foreign adversary is not protected by the 4th amendment
Re:About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in t... by Lammy on Sunday January 19, 2025 @01:57AM (#42754530)
Don't care; fuck all nationalism. We are all complete people — don't frame your own existence as that of a human resource that belongs to some higher power.
Re:About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in t... by nathanaldensr on Sunday January 19, 2025 @04:32AM (#42755474)
You can say "fuck all nationalism" all you want but you are in the vast, vast minority, and until you have the guns and the army to do things your way, dealwiddit.
Re:About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in t... by DrBenCarson on Sunday January 19, 2025 @01:32AM (#42754329)
Apple never told you you were getting a general-purpose computer in the form of an iPhone

You knew what you were buying

Re:About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in t... by Lammy on Sunday January 19, 2025 @01:34AM (#42754341)
Correct, I am well aware of what Apple are and don't use iOS. I'm talking about normies — I hope this makes some of them realize computing freedom is something to care about :)
Re:About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in t... by lostlogin on Sunday January 19, 2025 @11:23AM (#42758404)
Where do you go for your freedom?
Re:About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in t... by layer8 on Sunday January 19, 2025 @01:41PM (#42760095)
Nobody prevents you from running your own TikTok locally.