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It is reasonable to ban all social media of any kind of on an employee phone in my opinion.

The government deciding that you can use set of social media apps but not another one is not as reasonable.

(Somewhat depending on what classifies as social media, where I would put "hooking up sites" in a different category)

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It is not unreasonable for governments to require all apps be published by US companies

So I shouldn't be able to install an Australian banking app on my US phone?

It's not unreasonable for the US federal government to ban employees of the US federal government from using Australian banking apps on work devices issued by the US federal government.

It is a separate conversation if any of those variables change.

If by "US phone", you mean "work phone issued by the US government", then that's right, you shouldn't.

If you’re a government employee, installing an app for a foreign bank account on your work phone may be the least of your roadblocks in that regard. Foreign financial influence is a serious concern.

What counts as a US company? TikTok Inc is based out of California.

The beneficial owners are the CCP, via Bytedance.

Go interview there. At a high enough level everyone you interview with is in mainland China.

They are a Californian company only in name. The guys running the company are in China. They don’t even do a good job hiding it.

Then US should make it a law that companies must be owned by americans (other countries have this kind of law) otherwise it's just racism and you would'n't mind if the company was ran by Swedish people

Trying to make this about race is lame. A weak straw man.

(Reasonable and educated) People in the US don’t care about the race of TikTok upper management, they care about the influence of a hostile government that is openly waging a fourth-generation war with the US. Sweden for example is not.

TikTok posing as an independent California company when we all know that is not the case is not helping them.

Reasonable and educated people in the US should be more critical of their own government which wages wars all around the world. China isn't a saint either but let's be real.

This seems like a non sequitur, although I do agree that more people should be more critical or at least cautious to support actions by the US abroad. The parent comment didn’t compare the US and China (foreign policy or otherwise). For instance, there was no discussion of any US big tech involvement in China.

They did, however, compare Sweden and China, both with respect to the US.

This seems like a somewhat bad faith response given that the parent comment described the people as “in (mainland) China,” not “Chinese” or something else that could denote race/ethnicity along with nationality.

Does not sound legal nor within the Constitution/free speech. Hope we don’t go down a road like this.

Government institutions get to decide what goes on government devices.

Ah didn’t read past the headline. Was assuming this was personal devices.

The headline seems to describe the rest of the story. A bill was introduced to ban TikTok nationwide, and according to the article there is "increasing pressure" on the executive branch to introduce a nationwide ban.

This does not go against free speech if there’s government data on your device.

That's not how free speech is defined or works, legally.

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