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Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by ironyman on Sunday January 19, 2025 @08:12AM (#42756673)
There was a classified briefing on Tiktok presented to Congress last year about why it is a threat to national security. No doubt the Intelligence Community had a good look inside Tiktok/Bytedance's network and determined it is not something we should allow to operate in this country.

Similar story with Huawei.

Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by llm_trw on Sunday January 19, 2025 @08:14AM (#42756683)
There was one about the Iraq war too.
Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by Yiin on Sunday January 19, 2025 @09:17AM (#42757185)
That's strawman that has nothing to do with this topic. If you follow this line of thought, everything that is discussed in classified briefings is being done in bad faith, which I agree is easy to argue for, because we tend to pick and remember only bad examples, lack of trust in the system probably doesn't help much either. So even if you're right about trusting Gov in general, your argument is still wrong.
Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by dambi0 on Sunday January 19, 2025 @11:51AM (#42758704)
If you follow your line of thought we could never point out that processes have made mistakes in the past. Yours is the only strawman.
Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by bdangubic on Sunday January 19, 2025 @09:23AM (#42757227)
any classified briefings on X/Twitter being controlled by an immigrant? :)
Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by throwaway199956 on Sunday January 19, 2025 @12:45PM (#42759355)
Why only to the Congress, does not the American people have a right to know? Why be tight-lipped about it, certainly it's not some military or nuclear technology matter.
Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by latentcall on Sunday January 19, 2025 @12:58PM (#42759519)
Yes I also trust the federal government unequivocally and without question. They didn’t tell me any details but I don’t need any, their word is good enough. In fact I will tell others so they are aware of the new gospel.
Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by rayiner on Sunday January 19, 2025 @01:09PM (#42759647)
Yes, especially the same people who said Iraq had WMDs. Trust them implicitly.