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FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores

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Re: FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores

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Post by FpUser »

_-david-_ wrote: post #890
FpUser wrote: post #888

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Unless one's blind it is happening right now

I believe it is temporary. China is massively build up their military and are consistently threatening their neighbors. I believe it is just a matter of time until war occurs. Also, you are advocating for more than 2 blocks. As far as I can tell there are only two super powers right now.

>"I believe it is temporary."

You can believe whatever you want. We have totally different point of view on subject and do not have to agree.

Re: FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores

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Post by FpUser »

wholien wrote: post #647
FpUser wrote: post #611

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I think the world will be more stable when there are few major players around with not a single one having complete control / dominance. This will insure competition and cooperation between our "masters" and will keep them on their toes.

a multipolar world means more instability and wars, though. When you say it will "insure competition", that means conflict for sure.

Conflict does not have to be military. I do not think the US looking forward to attack Russia or China for example.

Non military conflicts could be better than being poodle under the threat of war which will happen if the world is ran by a single country

Re: FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores

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Post by Siira »

TingPing wrote: post #855
archagon wrote: post #773

What disturbs me is that it seems to be taken as a given that a piece of software running on our computers can even be “banned” in the first place. This statement would have no fangs if we could run any software we liked on our devices. But we’ve gone so far down the walled garden path that the implication seems to be “removed from app stores” => “no longer running on US customers’ devices.” Regardless of what you th…

This is only a problem on iOS devices of course.

Yet.

Re: FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores

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Post by go_elmo »

arroz wrote: post #483
go_elmo wrote: post #313

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Youll enjoy europe then, scandinavia among others is surely on top of the us in every term apart from business revenue and the army.

And opportunities, and size of homes, and cost of living

Opportunities to get shot, cross drug addicts, not be able to abort, lose your home because of health care costs

Re: FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores

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Post by ricardobeat »

verelo wrote: post #736
ricardobeat wrote: post #272

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It’s easy to not care if you don’t get the full picture. The data in question is not “your diddly doo”, but the aggregated diddly-doos of 200 million people and the insights and power it provides.

Again, did i say i don’t care? Are you trying to be constructive here or should i refer you to Reddit? Exception handling matters. Your attitude towards these edge cases is likely damaging the argument that you and i both seem to agree on: allowing anon reviews is healthy, freedom of saying what you feel to be fair and true is important. The issue as i see it is if companies ask to let themselves self regulate via mo…

Sorry but I think you’ve read my comment wrong - this writing style may not be popular everywhere: "you" in my previous comment is figurative, interchangeable with "one", as in "one may think...". It's not referring to you in particular.

Rephrasing, I think people don't care because they are only thinking of their own "personal secrets", and don't realize the big-data aspect of this type of data collection (which is understandably a bit hard to grasp for people outside of tech). Their lack of concern is simply a reflection of the lack of perspective, not a valid counter-argument to privacy protection - needs a lot longer legs to become a position worthy of consideration.

Re: FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores

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Post by kebman »

honkdaddy wrote: post #397
diogenes_of_ak wrote: post #388

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Sorry if other languages aren’t permissible. I can delete it if I need to.

I don't think it's against the rules at all; we had a thread a couple weeks ago which ended up being mostly in German. We native speakers enjoy the privilege of reading English nearly every where we go online, it should be no skin off our back to pop open Google Translate every once in a while.

Hi, Norwegian here, so English is my second language. Sorry no. If there are other-language comments, I just skip them. The reason is UX and time. If you're too lazy to run your other-language comment through Google Trans or similar, then you'll just end up having fewer readers. Meanwhile you just end up annoying those who want to fluently read the discussions without having to stop and run things through a translator every other post. This makes other-language posts bad for HN's business. I mean consider if I just switched to my own language for no reason at all. Haha, da må du kjøre greia gjennom Google Trans eller lignende, og fordi jeg skriver dialekt så er det likevel ikke sikkert at alt blir oversatt riktig lol. Actually the translation for that last sentence came out surprisingly well, but it's not like you'd know anyway.

Re: FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores

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Post by bmazed »

yucky wrote: post #845
dragonwriter wrote: post #828

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> The names of the parties Republican & Democrat aren't just random words, they represent the philosophical differences in where the bulk of the power in government should rest No, they don't. Also, the two original parties were the Democratic-Republican Party of Jefferson, Madison, et al. , and the Federalist Party of Hamilton, Adams, etc al. Both, BTW, favored what is, I modern terms, a democratic republic and a re…

Your post has the tone of disagreeing with what I said, yet never actually does. The names of the parties change over the years, and the ideologies shift. But we have essentially always had one major party pushing to put more power directly into the hands of voters and another major party wanting to conserve the power in the established governmental frameworks. The two current parties are no different in that regard.…

the US is a dictatorship disguised as a democracy..the dictators happen to be those with the most influence and $ which then they hand down generations..no 1 person has ever ruled the world, they are just the main face of the whole...both rep and dem are influenced by the same "shadow" entities..so it doesn't matter who wins from either side they all respond to the same people

Re: FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores

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Post by germandiago »

XorNot wrote: post #846
germandiago wrote: post #146

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I am not talking about that. I agree with you about that. I have a good Ukranian friend also, even I visited his home some months back (in Spain). The topic is why everyone gets involved in things that are far and foreign to them.

You are arguing that a Ukranian invasion means you should get to continue doing business with Russia freely because how could it affect you? You are arguing you should continue to help fund the war, the weapons, the rapes and murders by Russian forces while they invade Ukraine. You might have dressed it up in pretty prose, but your position is "guess a little genocide is just something we have to live with".

I mean there are people who know totally normal russian and ukranian citizens like you and I and no government is entitled to put is in a war and after that choose who we can do business with. Russia, Ukraine or whatever country is not a block of people you must be against. It is formed by each of its individuals. If you do not want to do business with them bc you consider it harmful, that is ok. But you cannot force everyone else under your vision. Why should you? With which right you go to make pressure to private business that are just selling clothes or milk-derived products?

To me it makes no sense, honestly.

Re: FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores

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Post by pastacacioepepe »

refurb wrote: post #868
pastacacioepepe wrote: post #864

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Except that in the US it just takes some health issue to put you in debt for years/life. Or that to exist in the US you are required to buy a car and so on, since it has a third world public transportation system. The pont being that you can still have somewhat higher life standards with less purchasing power but a stronger social state.

Except if you’re one of the 60% rural farmers who have access to only the most basic medical care and limited local public transit. Not everyone lives in Shanghai or Beijing you know.

Like not everyone lives in Los Angeles or Washington you know. There's cities like Detroit, there's cities without drinkable water, there's countless trailer parks.
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