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> For the sake of clarity, shouldn't the title really be "One FCC commissioner requests Google, Apple remove TikTok

I think you're the only poster who actually caught this.

Brendan Carr comes out of a firm that owns a major DC lobbying hydra (Signal Group). His FCC history is all about parroting the (often anti-consumer) talking points of last administration.

He's indistinguishable from Ajit Pai. Carr is endlessly supportive of ISP monopolies. He rails against net-neutrality and Section 230. He's everything the FCC ought to protect us from.

As far as TikTok+China goes, I tend to be way more concerned about govs that can imprison me.

Past that, is TikTok a problem? We don't actually know because we never, ever, ever get meaningful specifics about what's being collected or what how that manifests as an actual risk to us.



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