A First Amendment group sued Texas Governor Greg Abbott and others on Thursday over the state’s TikTok ban on official devices, arguing the prohibition – which extends to public universities – is unconstitutional and impedes academic freedom.
A First Amendment group sued Texas Governor Greg Abbott and others on Thursday over the state’s TikTok ban on official devices, arguing the prohibition – which extends to public universities – is unconstitutional and impedes academic freedom.
I’d like to see TikTok banned from all devices across the US (personal or otherwise) but I don’t make the rules. It’s among the worst of a bad bunch of applications and under the control of the Chinese Communist Party. To me, that sets it apart from the ones owned by US-based companies because at least those companies can get dragged into court for doing something wrong or grossly negligent. It’s not as easy to go after a Chinese company, particularly if (/when) the instruction to collect data comes from their government.
My other concerns are too tin-foil-hat to bring up here which should say something given what I wrote above. Short version is that none of them can be trusted but that goes double (at least) for anything connected to the CCP.