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University professors in Texas are suing the state over ‘unconstitutional’ TikTok ban
(www.engadget.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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The claim seems to be that it's not the videos; it's the installing a piece of software that grants a foreign dictatorship access to monitor Texas government employees.
It appears that the TikTok service currently requires, as a term of service, that the user consent to be monitored and tracked by a corporation ultimately controlled by the China government. That is something that the state of Texas and the US government appear to believe they have good reason to prevent on devices used for work by government employees.
In any event, it's very much not clear that "you may not install this specific piece of software on a government device" is a speech restriction.
I've been telling everything that Google and META are threats but nobody listens to me.
Oh, you were referring to TikTok.
The American government doesn’t care about domestic tech companies spying on consumers because they get that data, too. They know how much can be fished from it so they don’t want to let China in on the game.