The governor of South Dakota issued an executive order on Tuesday banning the use of Chinese social media platform TikTok for state government agencies, employees and contractors on state devices.
In a press release the state government said the order was in response to the growing national security threat posed by TikTokās data-gathering operations on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The order comes into immediate effect and prohibits not only the use of the platform, but also the downloading of the app, and even just visiting the site on any state-owned device with internet connectivity.
The order [PDF] goes on to claim that TikTokās parent company, ByteDance, could gain control of user data stored on mobile devices, such as browsing history, location and keystrokes, and use it to gather sensitive information, steal intellectual property or for other āillicit purposes.ā
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Nicolas Cage, obv
Why Cage of course!
The cultural reference flew over the childrenās heads yet for years people thought the children spoke in tonguesā¦
Cue thatsthejoke gif
Odd = Frightening? You decide.
Thoroughly debated in the comments.
Selling personal EMPs seems like a good business opportunity.
And nowās the timeā¦
Maybe they will come with pooper scoopers and wenches to straighten leaning towers.
Why is Bernie at ComiCon?
Socialism!
Thatās one where i donāt get the joke.
Socialist old ogles young bod? 
So itās a Bullworth reference?
I donāt think he is ālookingā at Electra at all, just a weird juxtaposition. But then, I see things in a different way most of the time.
Space socialism!
Funny thing was, I did not notice Bernie at firstā¦ I was wondering if the woman in the picture was Traci Lordsā¦ Only after a minute did I note the Bernie!
I think itās just another of the āBernie in strange places you would not expect himā memesā¦
Same. I had to click through, and even then it took a minute.
