• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    See I honestly think it’s because they’re so old that they genuinely don’t understand that issue

    They’re going after TikTok because foreign ownership of a National Security related industry gives them Red Scare flashbacks

    Most of the leadership are people who went through the Cuba-Turkey missile crisis, and it fucking shows, you could show these people a hello world program and they’d think it was hacking.

    Don’t run yourself ragged worrying about malicious intent when plain old incompetence suffices Occam’s Razor

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      8 months ago

      No, no, no! Ted Stephens got them all up to speed with his famous “Dump Trucks and Tubes” educational lecture. Now they’re all experts.