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Comment by switchbak | Hacker News Reader

I'm no security professional, but I am familiar with the ultra crap security standards of many institutions. It's really just removing a drop from the ocean of potential risks, but doesn't seem that outlandish given the nature of TikTok and where it comes from.

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But like, what risk? I'm serious. TikTok poses no risk to UT's networks.

Well, sure, I think you're right: if the Chinese state wants access to UT-Austin's networks, they definitely have that already, and cutting this out doesn't help anything.

I suppose they're just going along with their new law in a way that buys some political points.

Personally, I'd love it if we banned the damn thing everywhere, but only because I hate the mindless content :)

There is no such potential risks. It is all about politics and propaganda.

"where it comes from" makes it sound like Xi Jinping commandeered an app where teenagers dance as a trojan horse to befall capitalism...

Your fridge was maybe made there too, are you scared a secret radio chip could activate to render your food communist ?

My fridge doesn't curate the thoughts and ideas tens of millions of American youth are exposed to daily

My fridge doesn't send recordings back to a server in China. Nor was it produced there.

It's a nationalist ban.

Whether it's a positive influence on _anything_ is questionable.

But it's not something happening outside politics

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