Only having private schools is a bad thing.

the limitation of public schools to perform studies on par with private institutes is bad. It should be prevented to preserve avenues to higher education.

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.

On college campus networks yes. How would you have a Java class without allowing unverified software to run on the schools network?

And just because it’s state schools now we should be extra worried, the Texas gop has been working to systematically disassemble all avenues of public education, the ability of colleges to college needs to be protected

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

This isn’t about blocking high schoolers from being distracted it’s about blocking the institutes of learning from being able to properly study and expose how these sites are manufactured to waste time.

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.

Your missing the point, how can you know that if professionals can’t study it? They are blocking the ability of Texas institutes from studying this!

They are blocking schools from accessing it, preventing serious studies of the platform from taking places and restricting the progress that colleges in Texas can make, driving potential communication students out of the state.

If it did not apply to institutes of education it may be a good idea, but as is its just more culture war

It’s the internet the women are men the men are children and the children are fbi