FBI chief Christopher Wray says TikTok is a ‘national security concern’

[Baker Boy 1,485]

FBI Director Christopher Wray warned lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Tuesday that allowing TikTok to continue operating in the United States could pose a threat to national security.

“We do have national security concerns, obviously from the FBI’s end, about TikTok,” Wray said during his testimony to Congress on Tuesday.

https://nypost.com/2022/11/15/fbi-chief-says-tiktok-is-a-national-security-concern/

 

In 2020, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin the process of banning TikTok.  

Upon taking office, President Biden replaced Trump’s executive order with his own. According to Klein, while Biden’s new order regulates data collection, "it does not address the other ways that China could weaponize the platform", like TikTok’s manipulation problem. 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-columnist-donald-trump-was-right-about-tiktok

 

 

[Hardcore troubadour 12,650]

Enough with the fear mongering and boogeymen. Oh wait, he’s on the good team.  Never mind. 

[JustinCharge 2,397]

trump is awful.  oh wait thats a good policy lets give credit to biden!!!!

[BiPolarBear 476]

I am having a great time on Tik-Tok. I follow a bunch of guitar content and nature stuff too. 

We get so tracked at every turn now. titans&bucs&bearsohmy! told us about the tracking his famiy's app does. When you walk thru the door at their nail salon, they know your name, where you shop, how much you spend and how long you stay. 

[IGotWorms 3,315]

I totally get that TikTok is basically the Chinese government but what, exactly, are they gonna do with info from the app? That’s where I’m having a hard time connecting the dots 

[RaiderHaters Revenge 3,584]

tik tok is a groomer network

[Hardcore troubadour 12,650]

3 minutes ago, RaiderHaters Revenge said:

tik tok is a groomer network

They’re on there. 

[Vikings4ever 496]

12 minutes ago, IGotWorms said:

I totally get that TikTok is basically the Chinese government but what, exactly, are they gonna do with info from the app? That’s where I’m having a hard time connecting the dots 

https://www.wired.com/story/strava-heat-map-military-bases-fitness-trackers-privacy/

[RLLD 3,455]

Remember when Elvis was a national security concern?

Always....always.....always.....be suspicious of ANYTHING a government official says.  Never accept it on its face.

In this instance common sense would support his stance. But do not accept his positions automatically or thoroughly. 

[DonS 3,067]

13 minutes ago, IGotWorms said:

I totally get that TikTok is basically the Chinese government but what, exactly, are they gonna do with info from the app? That’s where I’m having a hard time connecting the dots 

Maybe they just get a good chuckle watching how messed up our country is.

[BuckSwope 654]

4 minutes ago, DonS said:

Maybe they just get a good chuckle watching how messed up our country is.

Lol.   Our country is probably their reality TV.  

[Alias Detective 1,179]

45 minutes ago, IGotWorms said:

I totally get that TikTok is basically the Chinese government but what, exactly, are they gonna do with info from the app? That’s where I’m having a hard time connecting the dots 

From the posted Fox News article in the OP

"TikTok automatically captures vast swaths of information from its users, including Internet and other network activity information such as location data and browsing and search histories.  This data collection threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans’ personal and proprietary information — potentially allowing China to track the locations of Federal employees and contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage," the executive order stated. 

[Hardcore troubadour 12,650]

Great. Now the Chinese know I like tanlines. 

[IGotWorms 3,315]

25 minutes ago, Alias Detective said:

From the posted Fox News article in the OP

"TikTok automatically captures vast swaths of information from its users, including Internet and other network activity information such as location data and browsing and search histories.  This data collection threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans’ personal and proprietary information — potentially allowing China to track the locations of Federal employees and contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage," the executive order stated. 

Seems like a bit of a stretch. Couldn’t any of these apps be used for that?

[Strike 3,979]

1 minute ago, IGotWorms said:

Seems like a bit of a stretch. Couldn’t any of these apps be used for that?

Are you retarded?  In the U.S. we have laws regarding how companies can use information.  China doesn't have those protections.

[IGotWorms 3,315]

Just now, Strike said:

Are you retarded?  In the U.S. we have laws regarding how companies can use information.  China doesn't have those protections.

Are YOU retarded? This stuff is all international. Everything you do goes through thousands of waypoints all over the world. Only an idiot could think Facebook, insta, Snapchat etc is somehow “secure”

[Strike 3,979]

1 minute ago, IGotWorms said:

Are YOU retarded? This stuff is all international. Everything you do goes through thousands of waypoints all over the world. Only an idiot could think Facebook, insta, Snapchat etc is somehow “secure”

You actually are retarded.   You really don't want to get in to a discussion about IT security with an IT guy.  I mean, I already school you on legal issues and that's not even my field of expertise.  I suggest you stand down.

[IGotWorms 3,315]

2 minutes ago, Strike said:

You actually are retarded. 

Little early to be sh1tfaced

[Strike 3,979]

Just now, IGotWorms said:

Little early to be sh1tfaced

They maybe you should quit drinking now.  But nice deflection from you proving how much of a tard you are.  AGAIN.

[IGotWorms 3,315]

1 minute ago, Strike said:

They maybe you should quit drinking now.  But nice deflection from you proving how much of a tard you are.  AGAIN.

You gotta move on from the Zimmerman thing. I understand you identified with him as a fellow fat loser with a tiny little d1ck and a law enforcement fetish, but it was a decade ago

[MTSkiBum 1,594]

On 11/17/2022 at 11:15 AM, IGotWorms said:

Are YOU retarded? This stuff is all international. Everything you do goes through thousands of waypoints all over the world. Only an idiot could think Facebook, insta, Snapchat etc is somehow “secure”

 

On 11/17/2022 at 11:16 AM, Strike said:

You actually are retarded.   You really don't want to get in to a discussion about IT security with an IT guy.  I mean, I already school you on legal issues and that's not even my field of expertise.  I suggest you stand down.

 

You are both correct. Both you two are retarded. 

 

 

Argument settled.

 

 

This was supposed to be in sarcasm, i should point that out.

[Strike 3,979]

1 minute ago, IGotWorms said:

You gotta move on from the Zimmerman thing. I understand you identified with him as a fellow fat loser with a tiny little d1ck and a law enforcement fetish, but it was a decade ago

I don't know why you keep bringing up Zimmerman.  I've schooled you on countless legal issues over the years.  Zimmerman is just one example.  Pretty funny you keep bringing that one up because a bunch of us made you look like an idiot in that particular thread.  But it's just one example.  But keep deflecting, 'tard.

[IGotWorms 3,315]

11 minutes ago, Strike said:

I don't know why you keep bringing up Zimmerman.  I've schooled you on countless legal issues over the years.  Zimmerman is just one example.  Pretty funny you keep bringing that one up because a bunch of us made you look like an idiot in that particular thread.  But it's just one example.  But keep deflecting, 'tard.

I keep bringing it up because you’ve had a massive hard on for me ever since, which especially manifests itself when you’ve been drinking because you’re clearly a very angry drunk

[Alias Detective 1,179]

29 minutes ago, IGotWorms said:

Seems like a bit of a stretch. Couldn’t any of these apps be used for that?

Ask Christopher Wray.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,650]

Man I love Nina Hartley back in the day with the tan lines. Now China knows. 

[Strike 3,979]

8 minutes ago, IGotWorms said:

I keep bringing it up because you’ve had a massive hard on for me ever since, which especially manifests itself when you’ve been drinking because you’re clearly a very angry drunk

Dude, I've been ragging on you forever.  Nothing to do with Zimmerman.  Because you're an idiot and clearly not an actual attorney.  And I haven't had a drop of alcohol in years so you're not a very good detective either.  Such a 'Tard.

[Baker Boy 1,485]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/mark-warner-trump-tiktok-bytedance-senate-intel
 

Top Senate Democrat: 'Trump was right' about TikTok, warns parents to keep children off app

 

[BiPolarBear 476]

Our soldiers take drugs that come from China and India. Tik-Tok can't be a big enough threat to our security than that. 

 

[Cloaca du jour 2,064]

I had tiktok for like 15 minutes ...i saw pet videos...asian pranks, girls taking upskirts and flashing the screen, magnet fishing, and way too young girls doing innapropriate things and some decent griddle recipes.

Deleted it.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,650]

Yeah, I remember that time Trump said the same thing a few years ago. Of course he was just being a fascist again.  

[TBayXXXVII 2,117]

On 11/17/2022 at 12:39 PM, Hardcore troubadour said:

Man I love Nina Hartley back in the day with the tan lines.

TRUTH!!

[TBayXXXVII 2,117]

55 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Yeah, I remember that time Trump said the same thing a few years ago. Of course he was just being a fascist again.  

Rremember that one kid from Parkland who posted a tweet that the US should ban Tik Tok, because of China?  Just a few months later, Trump says the same thing and the kid tweets out that Trump is scared of teenagers who might vote him out.

https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/david-hogg-tries-to-own-donald-trump-on-tiktok-fails-miserably

[BufordT 371]

Trump was pretty smart to dig up and research that intel all by hisself.

[TimHauck 1,800]

 

 

[Jeff Probst 38]

Digby used to tell us that liberals wanted to ban TikTok because it spreads the truth about their lies.

[BuckSwope 654]

22 minutes ago, Jeff Probst said:

Digby used to tell us that liberals wanted to ban TikTok because it spreads the truth about their lies.

Good thing Texas us there to protect us from Tik Tok and evil books.  

[Dizkneelande 839]

33 minutes ago, BuckSwope said:

Good thing Texas us there to protect us from Tik Tok and evil books.  

Why did the Fed ban it from federal devices?

[Voltaire 4,560]

Why is TikTok's data collection different/worse than what Google, Facebook, and Twitter do? Those are sites are also known to be pretty dang invasive with private data but shouldn't the rule for one apply to all?

[RLLD 3,455]

21 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

Why is TikTok's data collection different/worse than what Google, Facebook, and Twitter do? Those are sites are also known to be pretty dang invasive with private data but shouldn't the rule for one apply to all?

Because anything based in China is owned by the totalitarian regime.  That is what socialism and communism is....

And we are supposed to be the opposite of that.  They will, of course, weaponize anything they can from it.

 

[Voltaire 4,560]

17 minutes ago, RLLD said:

Because anything based in China is owned by the totalitarian regime.  That is what socialism and communism is....

And we are supposed to be the opposite of that.  They will, of course, weaponize anything they can from it.

 

The Chinese government sucks, indeed.

Notice there's also a less awful, but still totalitarian, regime much closer to home. Facebook, Google, and (formerly) Twitter are all the private branches of it that skirt around the government's 4th Amendment Constitutional laws that would otherwise prevent the government from doing so. Judicial branch leftists who hate the Constitution just ignore it and interpret it how they want to via the "living document" scam. Meanwhile Executive branch leftists lean on Big Tech to do their bidding for them. One hand washes the other. It's all group think and it's also all the same people rotating around anyway, you get a job in government, go work in Big Tech, go back to government, and then back to Big Tech.