Re: [AFMUG] TikTok ban

[Bill Prince]

I'll drink to that.


bp
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On 9/20/2020 8:44 AM, Robert wrote:

420=pot 2020 will equal disaster in the future..    "2020'd that one, didn't you...  No going back now"

On 9/20/20 8:25 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:

They used to teach a concept called "critical thinking" which meant how not to believe a bunch of stupid shit people will try to feed you.  Like when I was a college freshman, a certain percentage would get sucked into cults.

Now believing stupid shit is popular, and advocating critical thinking is elitist.

It doesn't help that reality pretty much sucks right now.  Can you blame people for wanting their own reality bubble?

https://www.gocomics.com/rabbitsagainstmagic/2020/09/20



-----Original Message-----
From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2020 10:15 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] TikTok ban

I just call it influencing.  (Or influenzing?)

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Prince
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2020 9:09 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] TikTok ban

You are the perpetual troll Chuck.

Whether you believe Tik Tok or Wechat are portals to China's cyber back door or not, this approach of doing whack-an-app (think like whack a mole) is probably the wrong way to do it. There is probably a more global way of dealing with this type of threat (or perceived threat).

bp
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On 9/19/2020 3:06 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:

Yeah, they be brewing up a new batch of nasty down in Wuhan...  But

they will probably build a vaccine for themselves first this time and make sure

their whole population will be good.   Welcome to WW3.

-----Original Message----- From: Ken Hohhof
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2020 4:01 PM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] TikTok ban

Banning WeChat is probably more consequential, it's used for real
things, not just silly dance videos.  And of course we can expect

China to retaliate against US companies.  This feels like Rockem Sockem Robots.

-----Original Message-----
From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2020 4:23 PM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <af@af.afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] TikTok ban

Tick Tock the crocodile seems like a much bigger threat. Known hand
(and
clock) eater.

But yeah, the app stores location data, and the Chinese government
could get hold of it.  Hold on there, that's OUR government's job.

Good thing other social media apps like Facebook don't store location data.

</sarcasm>

I saw a review of Reels, the competitor to TikTok that
Facebook/Instagram took 2 years to develop, on a tech site. The
review basically said Reels sucked in comparison, and that TikTok was
a well designed app, well targeted to what the user and creator

community wanted.  How dare they succeed by designing something people like.

So you could say that US social media companies can't come up with a
better product, so ban the competition.  But it's probably more
accurate to say it's an election year.


-----Original Message-----
From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Matt Hoppes
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2020 3:54 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] TikTok ban

I don’t even really understand what the threat is.

I downloaded tiktok to see what all the fuss was about.

All I saw were folks in various states of disrobement dancing to music.

What national security issue is this?

On Sep 19, 2020, at 4:43 PM, Seth Mattinen <se...@rollernet.us> wrote:

On 9/19/20 1:38 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:

I don’t know why the Commerce Dept. wants to pit its technical

prowess against 14 year olds. They’re bringing a knife to a gun fight.

More like a plastic knife.

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