This is already happening at a state level, and with some not-unconcerning implications: https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/22/tech/tiktok-universities/inde...
For those two schools, students are completely blocked from accessing TikTok on school networks.
For those two schools, students are completely blocked from accessing TikTok on school networks.
When I went to school, I couldn't access the internet. I had to wait until I got home.
This is a rather absurd position if you consider it. To take the absolute simplest example, you really think a school should not be allowed to filter traffic from students specifically launching purposeful attacks on school network infrastructure?
Keep going a few steps and you'll realize that's exactly the problem, there's no level of specificity you can define here that works without some level of subjectivity. Try and see. Good luck.
Suggested reading: https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1586955288061452289
Possibly Universities are doing this for more than one reason?
For example to protect their staff given the recent articles about tiktok tracking of journalists
There's a privacy and security (read: espionage) concern with the apps right now.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/telegram-encryption-end-to-e...
It is banned in my house.
(I grew up on the Vic20/C64/Amiga etc; am not a Luddite).
It is.
> It is banned in my house.
Good. Don't let weird internet techbros namecalling or "expert advice" influence how you raise your children, or apologize for it.
I imagine the most difficult problem with banning anything would be to make sure they don't feel or become isolated from their peers because of it. Must be tough.