Recent content by Corey0372

It matters enough to some people that they can be blackmailed. There's plenty of people who want to give the impression that they're living life in a certain way, but have some dark secrets. But to your point that's why I never bought the story about him with Russian prostitutes or whatever...

Remember when googles motto was don't be evil? wonder what happened, haha

So does infidelity and immoral behavior... haha

Basically what I'm saying is if the Chinese want a spy inside the US, they can send them here on a work or student visa. It sounds ugly to say that but there's a lot of truth to it.

I mean yea.... but this is also why lifestyle polygraphs exist. Blackmail has been used as a intel tool long before Tik Tok, and the CCP literally has assets working at google and many of our institutions anyway, not just sources being ran, but actual CCP loyalists, in the military as well...

It's not even that your data is sold "illegally" per say, most of the collection is explained in the TOS that most people don't read anyway. Which in turn basically makes all of it potentially spyware, especially when you consider that our networks themselves are not secure. If a state actor...

Same thing can be accomplished with facebook pictures, instagram, alexa, any other app. Not to mention the camera on your phone, and laptop, those can be remote accessed as well and the person accessing them can take your picture or a video.

I've read that as well, but all your user data that's collected from other apps on your phone as well as your internet browser can be collected on or purchased anyway.

I didn't support the move or understand it when Trump wanted to do it. As far as corrupting the minds of young people... again when they ban onlyfans, drag queen story hour, and puberty blockers for kids I'll take them seriously. Also yes, other apps take just as much data from your phone as...

Right.... but if I use a VPN and place my location in a country outside the US and download the app that way, or side load the apk from an existing phone, and fire up a VPN when I want to use the app, what's the punishment going to be? And again.... who is this protecting and from what?

It baffled me when he wanted to do it then just like it still baffles me now. The other issue going forward is what is the enforcement mechanism they plan on using that doesn't require even further digital surveillance than we already have? If someone uses a VPN to download the app anyway is...

losing our manufacturing base to China is far more detrimental to our national security

All of that user data is accessible via any other application, or from the hardware on the phone itself (much of which is made in China). Smart watches can do the same thing. This is why anything like this is already prohibited from being anywhere near sensitive military or national security...

I don't see what banning tik tok accomplishes or how it "protects" anyone. Was the CCP going to send over police officers to arrest Americans for what they posted? Even the "it's corrupting the youth" argument doesn't make sense. Tik Tok has to go.... but onlyfans, drag queen story hour for...

You'll have to remind me, was there widespread condemnation of the 2020 BLM riots from the staff at Columbia?