re: #156 Dangerman

this part is not hypocrisy

the campaign is not going to put anything on the app that could be dangerous or compromising etc

this is not the kind of activity the law is concerned about

The concern is not about what you put on the app, or even what inane content the app algorithm is feeding to kids. It is about what information the app is collecting that you don’t know about or has the potential to collect even if it isn’t currently. The amount of access people grant random apps on their phones is terrifying(myself included). ByteDance is little more than an extension of the Chinese government. If the wrong person puts tiktok on the wrong phone and it grants access to image libraries, email content, contacts and whatever else the app requests on install it could absolutely be a national security issue.

I don’t remember seeing the kind of backlash when they indicated that they were going to ban Kaspersky Antivirus because Russia.