Yay!!! The Chinese Spyware has been banned 📿
Long live American spyware 😍
Fake news. American government would never spy on its own citizens!!
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There is no known western API access directly into your phones through any major social media company and if it were known it would get patched. I'll take the American spyware over the CCP spyware any day of the week, thank you very much.
Horray, communism is no more!
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[we are doing it for the] “integrity of information and resources connected to the Clemson network”.
They're not doing it to censor or discourage use. They're doing it because they don't want the software running on their network alongside their network resources.
You can still use tiktok, just not while connected to their network infrastructure.
The ban is on campus networks, but the reactions I'm reading are acting like this is a ban on the campus itself.
It's not censorship (or fascism), just like if they blocked PornHub it wouldn't be censorship (or fascism).
And no, blocking PornHub on a university campus where the vast, vast majority of connected users are 18+ isn't justifiable unless it was under the grounds of security.
I guess VPN will be more popular.
Lol how are they expecting to crack down on this if you can just use cell data.
I think this is more to discourage the use. Using cell data for video can add up quickly.
That is the point.
People can use their own cell data to watch meme videos instead of hogging all the network bandwidth and slowing down wifi speeds for all the students who are trying to get actual schoolwork done.
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