Looks like the TikTok Kids Got Under His Skin

[berni_mccoy]

Link to tweet

Pompeo says U.S. looking at banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok.

[Phoenix61]

1. Such a petty little man. nt

[Javaman]

28. the whole admin is petty but moreover, they are also spiteful. nt

[ananda]

37. Also murderous and corrupt.

nt

[raging moderate]

2. They think our kids cannot organize their own form of TikTok.

Ha! Let Pompeo & co go ahead and ban Chinese social media apps. I am betting on our kids.

[soothsayer]

4. I hope they do. TikTok is spying for China

[Fla Dem]

29. Yep, call me paranoid, but nothing China does is without a intelligence gathering

or systems disruption purpose. Their infiltration of our telcom systems by China is a threat to national security.

[spanone]

3. mr pompeo has no problem with the russians paying taliban to kill American soldiers....but tiktok!!!

[berni_mccoy]

5. Bingo.

[dalton99a]

11. +1

[2naSalit]

17. Very telling. ...nt

[Newest Reality]

6. Fascists are banning what now?

[ret5hd]

7. Remind me...how did it work out when we banned hard encryption software?

[mnmoderatedem]

8. because they may share information with the Chinese govt.

that's the justification they are going to go with.

and this from a president who among other things, blurted out sensitive intelligence to the Russian Foreign Minister in the middle of the Oval Office.

Or had people forgotten about that.

[2naSalit]

18. And telling Xi to make sure he wins next election!

[Demsrule86]

9. What a great move for dumb ass Trump and his toady. Kids who don't show up

in numbers to vote generally given a real time lesson in why they need to vote to stop Trump and toady Pompeo.

[Coventina]

10. Tik Tok is Chinese spyware. It should be banned. n/t

[jaxexpat]

45. Every credit card transaction.

Every web search. Every poll you take, opinion survey you fill out, product rating feedback you write and your perusal of any website IS observed by spyware. Every company whose business is to sell things wants to know what you want. There is a market for your desires, literally, knowledge of what you want or find interesting is valuable to someone seeking to sell you something. They pay out for it. Fractions of a penny per person multiplied by billions creates the living wage of MANY people.

What I'm saying is that the "ban" ship has long since sailed. You can't "ban" your way out of anything. Every regulation, when encoded, becomes a target for evasion. It's the book which escapes the bonfire that becomes everyone's favorite read. The old saying, "It's the exception that proves the rule", describes, perhaps, the most profound observation of human behavior since Genesis.

[dawg day]

12. Such hypocrisy...

They buttwail because Twitter slaps a lie warning on Trump tweets, but they'll shut down a network l.

[grantcart]

13. Today Til Top tomorrow K Pop

[The Mouth]

14. *EVERY* computer security person I know

says that is a toxic fucking program that collects a huge amount of data. And most of the computer geeks I know are lefties.

[berni_mccoy]

30. I don't disagree with that... do you think Trump would give a shit

If the platform wasn’t used against him?

[The Mouth]

39. No idea

nor do I care.

[Sapient Donkey]

43. Very true. But I don't think I like the idea of the US government banning apps

We should all discourage tiktok usage, but I would much rather my government leave China too the app banning.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. Yep

Channeling his inner Putin

[Mr. Ected]

16. If, in fact, it is Chinese spyware, we need to get a handle on it

But let's wait for Joe and a Dem Congress to make that determination.

Any action taken by this administration is per se fascist and though the end result may be the same, the impetus is certainly not.

[2naSalit]

20. +1

[KatyMan]

19. Has the Fed govt banned any sites?

Can they?

Edit: beyond outright illegal activity.

[H2O Man]

21. Ass Clown.

Recommended.

[IronLionZion]

22. Our military and some civilian agencies banned it long ago

it's a data collection app vaguely masquerading as social media.

[MrModerate]

25. Kinda like Facebook, you mean? n/t

[IronLionZion]

27. The depth and quantity of private data it collects is staggering

FaceBook is bad but TikTok is much worse. India banned it. The EU is considering banning it.

Here's an article from last year https://www.cnet.com/news/tiktok-accused-of-secretly-gathering-user-data-and-sending-it-to-china/

[MrModerate]

36. I don't see that TikTok...

Does anything substantially different than Facebook does. Facilitating content theft and collecting highly personal data without explicit permission are right in Zuckerberg's wheelhouse.

[IronLionZion]

44. They deliberately exploit that common misconception

I don't trust Facebook that much either. But this engineer has described it as comparing a cup of water to the ocean.

https://www.boredpanda.com/tik-tok-reverse-engineered-data-information-collecting/

[berni_mccoy]

32. And Trump would not give two fucks except

That he has been repeatedly embarrassed by users of the platform.

[IronLionZion]

34. Trump gives fewer fucks about Russian bounties to kill American soldiers

and doesn't feel any shame or remorse over it

[greenjar_01]

23. What is Tik Tok supposed to be spying on?

All I see is my teenager learning pretty good dance moves and building some damn rhythm.



Here's a hot tip for the Chinese intelligence agencies: my daughter is...

...


...


...AT HOME.

[IronLionZion]

33. Contact lists, IP addresses

Most kids have their parents' phone numbers, email addresses, and more on their phones.

What concerns me are the saved passwords we all have on our phones and biometric data like fingerprints used to authenticate into various apps.

[MrModerate]

24. Good luck with that, you stupid putz. n/t

[Codeine]

26. TikTok is, in all fairness, Chinese spyware.

One doubts that’s what is motivating this, but nobody should be using that shit.

[HipChick]

31. Are they going to ban VPN's too?

As that's the way to get around it

[slumcamper]

35. LOL! I'm sure the kids are already at work developing their own app. n/t

[Baitball Blogger]

38. Here we go. This is probably what Newsweek was talking about when it said that

Barr was going to help Trump contest the election. China is interfering with the election with all those Tik Tok users! Proof of high tech interference!

[keithbvadu2]

40. Why? Trump is not getting a cut of the action?

[Dopers_Greed]

41. TikTok should be banned

I hate the Trump administration as much as anyone here.

But my hatred of them isn't going to make me bow down to the CCP.

[flibbitygiblets]

42. Then also ban Facebook and Twitter, which are used by foreign powers to influence our electiions!

What's that? Oh, IOKIYAR, is it????