Tim Maliyil
Rolling StoneWhile students and faculty, under the guise of their own and the university’s safety, will no longer be allowed to access TikTok via university WiFi they can still carry a firearm on campus and in classrooms. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tiktok-banned-university-of-texas-austin-campus-1234662400/
NLAWScametovisit@RollingStone yea, damn, it would probably be different if there was a constitutional amendment related to tik tok.
@RollingStone i'm not saying i agree with it, but lets not act like this is some completely unprecedented shit.
Roman.@NLAWScametovisit @RollingStone the first one comes to mind..?
@rkofman @RollingStone does the first amendment protect the right of social media platforms to exist?
@NLAWScametovisit @RollingStone does the first amendment protect your right to use a phone? Send an email? Post a blog? Hold a public forum with your peers?
Ron DeSantis's BDE@NLAWScametovisit @rkofman @RollingStone Yes, it does.
Stay in school, bro.
@NLAWScametovisit @RollingStone you mean like, The First Amendment? Something like that?
Toxteth O'Grady@RollingStone While there are concerns about Chinese access to students' data via TikTok, the real reason for this is to suppress student activism. Better to ban Twitter...
tibbi ✨@RollingStone
I swear, our country is beyond weird.
I swear, our country is beyond weird.
Slam@RollingStone And, as we all know, firearms have never caused any problems on that campus.
julie@RollingStone guns and Twitter are obviously more dangerous and threatening to america than TikTok these days, It's alarming watching america's descent into 3rd world shitholedom.
Andrew Bennett@RollingStone In other words, UT Austin is complying with the laws of the State of Texas and the lawful orders of the Governor of the State of Texas.
fritzcokid@fritzcokid @RollingStone
It does ... from the standpoint of blaming UT for this. Which is what the post, headline, subheading, and first sentence all are designed to imply.
This framing by Rolling Stone is an underhanded way to milk more rage induced clicks from people who hate guns, of which there are way more than people who care about a TikTok ban.
The Texas Campus Carry law to allow students who are licensed to carry to do so on campus was signed in June 2015.
@larthallor @RollingStone there are too many guns in America. Priorities here seem pretty messed up. Apps don't have the capacity to kill.
UT may be following the law but that doesn't make the law ok.
I don't hate guns but I do recognize America has a gun fetish problem.
UT may be following the law but that doesn't make the law ok.
I don't hate guns but I do recognize America has a gun fetish problem.
Grassroots Joe@larthallor @fritzcokid @RollingStone
Happen to know if UT fought that gun law on the basis of legal liability in their in loco parentis role and responsibility for the safety of their students?
avnyc on hudson@RollingStone all the kids will just connect via cell network instead so not like it’s a huge deterrent - also. the guns thing is obviously bad, but on a standalone basis, isn’t there some actual validity to the TikTok data security concerns?
Liz Phair
CANELA BLANCA@RollingStone I don’t even need to click through to know this is UT Austin.
LazyCatHappyCat@RollingStone are they really trying to take good security measure or are they just trying to suppress freedom of speech?
Old Man Mike@RollingStone America? Fuck yeah 😭
This is Hell
django@RollingStone TikTok doesn’t spy on people, PEOPLE spy on people 🙄 /s
joncamfield@RollingStone every digital safety trainee is updating their mental list of bad threat modeling examples.
Tofu Golem@RollingStone
Yee haw, y'all! Freedumb!
Yee haw, y'all! Freedumb!
John Breen@RollingStone Every college recruiter in a Blue state must have a much easier job these days - "come to our school - we don't act like those guys in TX and FLA".
sOlOw-NH
Stewart@RollingStone 🎵The laaand of the freee 🎶 and the hooome of the braaaave 🎵
SillyName@RollingStone priorities..
Sals
Locksmith@RollingStone Because we will be damned if we will allow our data to leak to China, or be groomed in libraries by lgbtq books, or be uncomfortable with discussions about race, or wear masks, or take vaccines, or learn pronouns, because we shall be protected in our rights!
But being trespassed by 7 or 8 AR-15 bullets while sitting in a classroom, well this is no big deal.