Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action as soon as Saturday

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  1. yardmeat

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    It does seem weird. As does all the stuff with Trump and Epstein. Why should I apply a double standard, though? Seems like both men look like sleezeballs.
     
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    That's pretty scary, when you think about it....

    I wonder if you can turn your phone location off? I'm sure you tried that...
     
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    Download tiktok and china has access to all the data on your phone. Its long been know that its basically chinese spyware.
     
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    Having looked at this site it seems like just another platform to upload funny videos.
    But we all know how that goes. It only begins with funny video's.

    If you can upload funny video's than you can upload video's to criticise or ridicule Trump.
    I can imagine people already have.
    I would.

    Trump can do without another platform that confirms him as the loon that he is.

    I sniff that Trump, again, is trying to censor the free speech that might hurt his re-election.

    It might be that simple and that pathetic.
     
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    I'm not even sure what tiktok is. But if it's from china, I'm sure there is something fishy about it.
     
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    I think it depends on how much info they take and how easily you can disable that info sharing.

    I (unfortunately) think Biden won't be as hard ok China as Trump is, but overall is still head and shoulders above Trump :)
     
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    And no president has tried to ban any of those by executive order....or at all that I know of
     
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    If you don't know what it is why are you commenting on this topic? Research can be a good thing.
     
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    Then answer the question with your own words. And you wont assume people are putting ones in there..Cause I certainly didn't. Im telling you what it is. And what he is.
     
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    No, you're giving your opinion of what it is and what he is. You have no facts to back up your opinion.
     
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    Practically the entire left wing.
     
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    I did, I wasn't sure even after I'd looked. Like how do you attract eyes so as to make money?
     
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    Like Devin Nunez's cow
    Lordy, WHO would ever admit to voting for this guy
     
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    I was actually thinking the same thing.
    There’s got to be a class in high school where kids learn how to identify legitimate sources on social media.
     
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    Did any young girls working for Clinton become sex slaves? Did Clinton have any rape lawsuits with Epstein?
     
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    true, we could also ban foreign countries from accessing us social media sites as long as were censoring other countries as many seem to be trying to interfere in our election process
     
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    I understand what big data is. What I am asking is what exactly is the threat? Is this about them taking the same data as everyone else and using it to predict what you will or wont spend your money on? Everyone keeps implying they are stealing (depends on the user agreement) personal information on your phone like your emails if you install the app? If that data is used for crimes or theft, should we be arresting the US based staff they have?
     
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    As I stated in the last post, Im not sure of the legal parts at play when you sign up for the service. They have US staff, so if what they are doing leads to a crime some of them should be arrested. I could take this anonymous members word that they take more than facebook for instance, but it still means little if there is no crime and it involves big data just getting data. Even not having anything but a smart phone, big data sees that as data on you habits and values it as money. No or very little data, is in a way valuable data to them on who you are and their predictions.
     
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    Apparently the ACLU is for Tiktok even though it allows spying by a communist geopolitical adversary.

    Weird.

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    That's what organizations like the FBI, CIA, Google, etc do. By collecting as much personal info as possible, it makes it more likely there is some pattern that can be exploited. Collectively that is a security risk. I.e., Trump doesn't use a secure phone for personal talk, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/21/trump-phone-security-risk-hackers-601903.

    Someone listening could very well at the minimum understand what Trump's most likely decision on a key foreign policy, hence a security issue.
     
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    has Trump's plane been to the island, Trump has his own plane, let's see the flight logs
     
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    Who knows what happened to those girls he took to the island...? Do we know their names yet?

    How did those lawsuits end?
     
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    My guess is like most lawsuits against trump settled out of court because they vanished into thin air.

    Neither of these guys deserve to be president although, due to them being sickos
     

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