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Feds use profile management? Is that news?

The weirdness of the WH app is notable enough but standard organization practices aren't.

It’s a purely political app, not an official US government.

So yes, it’s weird and illegal for the republicans to force all government employees to have a propaganda app on their work phones.

Do you want to make the argument that a business/person/entity does not have the right to manage software on devices they own?

Think carefully about that.

Depends on the software, this is not a hard thing to understand or debate.

But since when Trump or Republicans own them? The whole idea behind modern democracies is the exact thing that they don’t, and these kind of influences shouldn’t exist.

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