TikTok and the Great Firewall of America

I'll now need a new VPN to access sites in China, just as I do to access sites outside of it...

Great firewall?

My expectation is that our lovely centrally backdoored cellphone platforms will forcefully uninstall the app on command.

No need for any firewall.

to be honest, I will not start talking about the so called firewall of America as long as extreme examples like Chinese firewalls exist. Everything pales in comparison. you want to object to this , ok fine but there is a monster size censorship of Chinese firewalls that should consume 90% of any censorship and firewall discussion

I like how this article claims not to be whataboutism, and then proceeds to go "but whatabout american companies"

Like I'm on board with the fact that if we're going to be "protecting the privacy of American citizens" we need to protect our privacy from American companies and also the government as well.

This article doesn't really make that argument though, it says "(this) won't be solved by putting more data in the hands of US companies" but doesn't make the argument that this is what banning tiktok does.

China is a modern day Nazi Germany.