Purdue University has officially banned the access of TikTok on both its network and devices. Here is a statement from ITAP:
“In light of recent changes to administrative policies, access to TikTok is now prohibited on the Purdue network and university-managed devices. More information can be found at:
If you have any further questions or need further assistance, please let us know.”
yikyak walked so tiktok could run
These articles are both just about university devices, isn’t about it being blocked on PAL generally
Don’t really care about this but App Store and Apple Music being banned is a magnitudes larger dumbassary in comparison.
Graduated in 92 long before the internet.
Does the school provide school wide Wi-Fi for the students to use? I understand the tic Tok ban is only for university devices, but if there is a Wi-Fi at school, I’d it censored? Yeah I’m old. Thanks.
It’s important to note that Purdue researchers work on a lot of government contracts, including ITAR and controlled information. Government facilities have already banned tiktok for its vulnerabilities, especially because they are linked to an adversarial government. It makes sense for Purdue to do the same, given the amount of sensitive information that circulates on campus.
You could probably still access tiktok with a VPN or unlimited cellular data though
Will people who vpn it get banned?
concerns about…algorithmic censorship of free speech
I don’t even necessarily disagree with the move, but this seems (1) unfounded, and (2) completely beside the point.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but there is no evidence of “cybersecurity risks to user data privacy, algorithmic censorship of free speech, and threats to national security” that has actually been found in TikTok.
All attempts to reverse engineer the source code have found that the app is no different in collecting data than other industry players.
So just because the app comes from China, we decide to censor it? I understand that the Chinese Gov’t could request any data it wants from ByteDance, but what data are they even collecting that is dangerous to us? What data do they have that could be detrimental to US citizens that isn’t already collected by Facebook, Google, etc.?
I don’t understand the big deal Netflix is banned on PAL (or at least it was 3 years ago) so it makes sense that other things that would slow down the WiFi on campus would be banned
Unfathomably based ITaP
With a healthy dose of skepticism it is hard to see how this decision isn’t politically driven to some extent. If we want to open the can of worms of banning applications beyond a bandwith reason, then what prevents Purdue or somebody’s ISP from banning Google or libgen based on privacy and IP reasons?
Also, there is absolutely a tech/social media lobby out there rejoycing over decisions like this considering how Tik Tok has kinda taken the American social media market by storm. The solution to this is not to ban single apps here and there, it’s to have rigorous data privacy law that protects all American consumers from bad data practices from any app, foreign or domestic.
Gotta love the virtue signaling by Purdue here
How will this affect Purdue Global? Go boilers!
did none of you have to use vpns on your school wifi in hs?
i don’t currently go to purdue but I would assume it would work the same it did in hs
hey kids, member vine?
why can’t google release creator tools like tiktok?
That’s exactly what I noticed as well when they cited them
Ironically, this can make it difficult to update Purdue issued phones and iPads that have no cellular plan…
Wasn’t this because it for some reason routes the same way as video streaming which was the actual target?