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lapfog_1

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3. you know, there is a technical solution...

Reply to moonshinegnomie (Original post)

Wed Mar 13, 2024, 07:44 PM

Mar 2024

everyone knows how VPNs work... we could do a similar thing with the actual web data and apps...

invent an app that translates user X and their bank accounts and location data... and anonymize it out of the control of the Chinese. This would require the establishment of fake bank accounts, etc.

Then the data that tiktok captures is useless.

As for their shaping the posts/videos the things American see... I suppose we could control the content coming this way as well.

If Tiktok doesn't like it... they can stuff it and lose 100 M users in the USA.

It is sort of like a competing ap but not disconnected from tiktok in the rest of the world.

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Banning tik tok is wrong [View all] moonshinegnomie Mar 2024 OP

Hakeem Jeffries agrees with you Bucky Mar 2024 #1

Tik Tok a Chinese company. Our "adversaries"... Marcus IM Mar 2024 #2

Don't be fooled mega and musk sell our information to the highest bidder PortTack Mar 2024 #9

Who's fooled? Marcus IM Mar 2024 #20

Apparently, a bunch of congresscritters Bettie Mar 2024 #36

you know, there is a technical solution... lapfog_1 Mar 2024 #3

These 50 Democrats voted against a bill that could lead to a TikTok ban Celerity Mar 2024 #4

155 voted in favor MichMan Mar 2024 #16

those are listed at the link I provided Celerity Mar 2024 #18

I agree I used tiktok every day and youtube and facebook Tribetime Mar 2024 #5

not only is it wrong its shortsighted drray23 Mar 2024 #6

Its not a ban... its just forcing a sale getagrip_already Mar 2024 #7

Getting real means finding a buyer...very few have that kind of money. If mush or meta buy it, they will ruin it PortTack Mar 2024 #10

Ruin what? getagrip_already Mar 2024 #11

What if a rich "suitable" buyer buys it? usonian Mar 2024 #12

Like we didn't notice the changes to Twitter LostOne4Ever Mar 2024 #39

Boomers wagon circle Faceborg and whatever Twitter is called today TheKentuckian Mar 2024 #8

This message was self-deleted by its author redqueen Mar 2024 #13

It's just a newer version of book burning. Ping Tung Mar 2024 #14

It's actually not the same BannonsLiver Mar 2024 #37

I understand their reasoning, but its not a good look with all the other important issues ecstatic Mar 2024 #15

Biden Backs Bill That Could Ban TikTok: 'If They Pass It, I'll Sign It' MichMan Mar 2024 #17

Pressure them to sell behind the scenes. Then, just as the sale is being finalized, ecstatic Mar 2024 #22

I agree. Unless they can show some actual issue with it redqueen Mar 2024 #19

How is tik tok any different than Fox News? Yavin4 Mar 2024 #21

Bingo. 👆👆 crickets Mar 2024 #43

Are they going to force my anti virus software Kaspersky out as well? Xolodno Mar 2024 #23

Well, you can use Kaspersky but don't expect to see it at the DoD. progressoid Mar 2024 #34

Gen Z please vote for us.. DemocratInPa Mar 2024 #24

It's blowing up over on TicToc womanofthehills Mar 2024 #27

"Whose idea" indeed! Drum Mar 2024 #31

I WILL install it on my phone NOW--- although I have no immediate plans to use it. DemocraticPatriot Mar 2024 #25

Tiktok is a cesspit of dangerous misinformation, RockRaven Mar 2024 #26

What "dangerous info" have you seen over there? womanofthehills Mar 2024 #30

Twitter is as well, however. Oneironaut Mar 2024 #35

The government shut down file sharing apps. Mosby Mar 2024 #28

they were sued out of existance and charged with copyright violations moonshinegnomie Mar 2024 #29

As a geezer, I never had TikTok Basic LA Mar 2024 #32

We might all simmer down about this Drum Mar 2024 #33

DU is such a strange place sometimes kcr Mar 2024 #38

Some of us remember the PMRC and Joe Lieberman's crusade against video games Act_of_Reparation Mar 2024 #42

How would forcing China to divest kcr Mar 2024 #46

People tend to get upset when you threaten to take their toys away. Act_of_Reparation Mar 2024 #47

The government absolutely should have the right and the responsibility to ban any Fla Dem Mar 2024 #40

This is a "stand there stomping on your own dick" moment. Act_of_Reparation Mar 2024 #41

I find this highly amusing ripcord Mar 2024 #44

I go back and forth on this XorXor Mar 2024 #45