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TikTok is banned from city-owned devices in NYC
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this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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The only actual personnel effected might be social media coordinators. (For actual work purposes)
And I'm sure they just get an exception.
I thought that was the point. If China really is able to parse and manipulate tiktok, governments want to avoid having their social media posts vulnerable to that. Hey, you're probably right though.