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I don't care about this kind of stuff as much as a lot of people do. Hopefully they also start blocking China from buying up USA farmland and housing.
Worst comes to worst, anything physically in America owned by a hostile foreign power can be seized, pieces of paper be damned.
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I'm no security professional, but I am familiar with the ultra crap security standards of many institutions. It's really just removing a drop from the ocean of potential risks, but doesn't seem that outlandish given the nature of TikTok and where it comes from.
"where it comes from" makes it sound like Xi Jinping commandeered an app where teenagers dance as a trojan horse to befall capitalism... Your fridge was maybe made there too, are you scared a secret radio chip could activate to render your food communist ?
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I don't want to follow the line of thinking that the US govt should enact similar policies to the CCP.
it's not enacting similar policies though. it's taking a reciprocal stance -- don't want to allow our apps? that's fine, but you can't expect we'll allow yours. default to open but restrict if others restrict feels like a very fair policy to me. right now we have open no matter what. this is too permissive.
The reciprocal stance by the US would be to allow TikTok but subject it to the same rules Facebook and Twitter and YouTube are subject to.
Does China allow Instagram and Facebook in the country?
Seems like the big social media companies might be putting pressure on things to ban TikTok, because they are eating their lunch.
Only Google and Meta should be able to hoover up peoples personal data, and resell it to the Government!
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In America, for unlimited it costs $80 on Verizon. With 5 lines it decreased to $30. There are other alternatives like Mint mobile, however they are also expensive. 10 GB costs around $20 monthly excluding taxes. In short, Mobile data is too expensive in the USA.
I pay $65 for unlimited on straight talk, which is on Verizon's network. I could get it cheaper if I gave up tethering or shared a plan. There are other MVNOs that are even cheaper, for example Mint is unlimited (35GB of 5G then the rest on LTE) at $30 a month.
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You are explaining why UT-Austin should have the power of say in what traffic they allow on their network, which I agree with they should have. It can be used for many legitimate things, including blocking malicious endpoints associated with DDoS, blocking websites with known malware, stuff that very negatively affects the campus network infra, etc. However, you aren't explaining why UT-Austin should get to decide wh…
If you are saying they should have to explain or justify why they block traffic to TikTok's services, you are saying they don't have "the power of say". Because you are saying that power is conditional on you accepting their explanation.
I was just bringing up examples of how I believed those powers should be reasonably used and the kinds of situations they were intended for (in my opinion). And the current situation is not how I believe they should be used, but they technically have the power to do it.
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Luckily, a good number of modern home routers support a one-click easy host-your-own-VPN feature. I have an Amplifi router, and i simply linked my phone to it once, and now I can toggle a VPN on my phone with just one click whenever I need it (just like any third-party VPN service), and it will route the connection through my home network. No complicated setup, the entire first-time setup took a grand total of 2 minu…
What’s the point of this? Isn’t it still your own IP address?
Edit: I think I just realized what made you confused in my original comment. I didn't specify explicitly, but it was implied that I toggle VPN on my phone when I am outside of my home and am connected to a work/public/etc network. Because otherwise, you are correct, trying to VPN through my home network while my phone is actually at home already connected to that network will serve no purpose at all.
So if they care about data harvesting, are they also blocking Facebook?
Data harvesting to China is what these people care about
Also, I don't know about you, but I find the idea of my own government spying on me just slightly more of an immediate threat then a country I have no plans of ever visiting.
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I absolutely despise how easily a lot of people on HN who were (justifiably) mocking the whole "think of the kids" (Patriot Act and many previous online censorhip attempts come to mind) can be baited into doing a full 180 and using variations of the exact same excuse to do the exact same thing.
You realize Tik tok is owned by the CCP right?
Absolutely amazing how 'national security' can just turn off all that personal liberties crap as long as the 'national threat' resonates along your political lines.