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Professors sue Texas over TikTok ban, signaling First Amendment fight
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It should be blocked in schools. Not only for the same reason as above, that they're state networks, but also that there is less than zero reason a student should be accessing TikTok at school (they're going to anyway--they'll just turn off WiFi).
Are all colleges in Texas state colleges? I don't think so. And, even so: once again, it's a state network. Students shouldn't be allowed to put TikTok on the state network. If they're a communications student, turn off WiFi, go to a coffee shop, etc. Convenience is not an excuse to lower security standards.
It's about studying and understanding the socioeconomic impacts of these apps, it's about research.
Also why the hell should a government care what is on a random students phone? There is no security threat of college students being on tiktok.
They don't. They care about what is on their network. As I said twice, you can use TikTok by turning off WiFi. Or by going to another WiFi at, say, a coffee shop.
Which is valuable, absolutely. But I'm not sure it's the responsibility of the network operator to take extra precautions that make researchers operating with potentially unsafe software safe to have on their network.
The precautions necessary to allow researchers on a college campus to access tiktok should be taken even if tiktok is banned, it's basic cyber security.
We are talking about college campuses here, not area 51. classified information or Ted cruz's flight plans shouldn't be a leak issue
I am not sure how to interpret this sentence. How is allowing access to something that is banned cyber security?
My point is that there is no increase in cyber security on a college campus by blocking tiktok, the difference security wise between blocking and allowing it is negligible.
The ban is security theater.