yeah but TikTok uses your WiFi, we better ban that instead.

BLKNSLVR · on March 28, 2023

Come on, you've got to reference such a critique to let everyone in on the joke:

https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/11zzank/asked_on_...

guilhas · on March 28, 2023

To be fair a malicious app could possible scan the network for tracking? Or scan for open services? As all other apps can

But if that was really the case, they would be like hawks on the evidence

But the way this guy delivers it is very over dramatic and unaware

monetus · on March 28, 2023

I figured he had been given questions like those to ask but simply didn't understand anything he was told.

mrguyorama · on March 28, 2023

Or was given questions to ask and not coached on how to ask those questions when the executive predictably waved it away.

"Are you sending any info back to your servers about what else is on the local network" would have been a perfect question, with a possibly worrying answer, but now instead everyone is laughing about "hur dur does tiktok use wifi" and using a dumb person being dumb to handwave away legitimate concerns.

wnevets · on March 28, 2023

> Or was given questions to ask and not coached on how to ask those questions when the executive predictably waved it away.

or they purposely asked a vague question that could elicit multiple different answers depending on someone's interpretation.

wnevets · on March 28, 2023

I figured it was quite infamous by now.

macinjosh · on March 28, 2023

The US gov hates TikTok because they can’t influence them like they influenced twitter during COVID. US tech industry hates TikTok because they are having their lunch eaten by it. Perfect formula for corpo-fascist policies like banning software for “security” reasons.