02-07-2023, 04:42 PM
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Reformed Know-Nothing
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: MoCo, MD
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Originally Posted by whell
OK.
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/21/11447...eral-ban-looms
As the U.S. Senate considers banning TikTok on federal devices as a part of its end-of-year spending bill, at least 16 Republican governors have recently taken that step at the state level.
They include North Dakota, Idaho, Iowa, Texas, South Dakota, South Carolina, Maryland, Utah, Oklahoma, Alabama, New Hampshire, Georgia, Tennessee, Montana, Wyoming and Virginia.
Nebraska has had a ban in place since 2020, which covers all state devices. So has the Florida Department of Financial Services. Louisiana and West Virginia each announced partial bans.
In some of these cases, new restrictions go beyond TikTok and also forbid other Chinese- and Russian-owned platforms. But all of the governors give similar reasons for their actions: concerns about data privacy and surveillance. |
These laws are pretty meaningless as they are largely redundant to laws in existence for decades (or that should have been). Installing outside software, regardless of its country of origin, was forbidden on all of my government-furnished digital devices (desktops, laptops, cell phones) starting 20-25 years ago. Any state not already doing so is far behind the times and just playing catch-up in the cybersecurity arena.
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