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		dependenttypes on Aug 1, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive ac... Under the Bernstein v. United States ruling software source code is protected under the 1st amendment, I do not know if this holds true for binaries as well though. I guess if TikTok distributed only its source code and it was compiled by the user the gov would be able to do nothing about it.

ISL on Aug 1, 2020 | [–]

If TikTok distributed its source code, people would have a much clearer understanding of things that the app does and doesn't do.

One could not inspect the data flow after it left the client, but it would still show far more than we normally see from major social-media vendors.

tossaway69 on Aug 1, 2020 | [–]

they could just block the servers, no?

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