I feel like I’ve been put under phone parental controls again. I get blocking it in academic buildings, but dorms?? Dining halls?? Anywhere other than an actual classroom? That’s bloody ridiculous. The bill isn’t even passed yet so why are they doing this now and with such a broad scope?
Edit: to ya’ll saying I should care more about TikTok potentially being able to feed MY info in particular to the CCP, do you really think the CCP gives a shit about an art student in bumfuck Indiana? I doubt it
Edit 2: guys. Not everyone has unlimited data. I can’t believe I have to point that out. Also, the main reason I’m frustrated isn’t because I’m constantly browsing TikTok. It’s because it’s one of the main platforms I post my art on. Is it so unreasonable for me to be frustrated that I could potentially lose the small
community I’ve built up?
Final Edit: I am well aware that there are security issues. Doesnt mean i cant be pissed off about it. i can understand WHY something is happening and still not like that it is. Watching the congressional hearing and the way they treated tiktok’s ceo has made me more than a little bit jaded on this whole thing.
I can’t even use Netflix in the dining hall. I tried today
It’s not a classroom issue. It’s an access to the network as a whole issue. Don’t know about all the ins and outs, the why’s/why nots… Just know that in the classroom, dorm, dining hall, Purdue has decided that they don’t want to risk TikTok potentially having access to their network.
Get a VPN, it’ll get around the blocks they put out on PAL during school hours too.
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I love the fact that replacing “Purdue” with “United States” in some comments and all the sudden this thread become the Congress hearing lol
Lmao I love all the people seething. Good riddance.
What pleasant news.
TikTok is ran and operated by a company with close ties to the CCP government.
- TikTok may gain access into off-limits information without user knowledge or consent. Some of this information is sensitive to the functions of US government.
- TikTok is used to influence and censor information towards users. For example, TikTok may spread false information to support Russia, cover up Uyghur genocide, and sway interest against Taiwan.
Currently, China has a political rights score of -2/100 and a civil liberties score of 11/100 according to Freedom House, a non-profit index of personal freedoms and liberties across the world.
It is against your interest, my interest, Purdue’s interest, and the interests of the U.S. to let an oppressive, adversarial nation to gain any advantage over us.
It’s not like the Chinese government can’t buy their data from Facebook and Google instead.
Ayo if you are using TikTok on Purdue’s wifi, it becomes much easier to hack/access other devices on the network that could have sensitive data. Purdue does a lot of good research and the CCP is notorious for stealing proprietary information… just sayin 
Here before Purdue starts blocking other sites on residential campus wifi
This has been addressed extensively already. You can use it on cellular still. Purdue is just fearful of TikTok and its connection with the CCP.
Not banning Google or any other third-rate mobile game that is probably malware ruins their "privacy"argument anyway.
tiktok can access the wifi network
Its not a classroom its a network security issue. It has nothing to do with any legal requirement its them being proactive in security and plenty of other organizations are doing the same thing
I’m a fucking adult and i can give my information to china if i fucking want to. You don’t see them blocking instagram or google. Are they gonna start making us raise our hands to go piss next
They for sure have firewalls, VPN, etc. but think of your nice dorm wifi as a little portal through the WWW to the locked front door to the important stuff !
Im worried knowing that these tiktok addicted kids are going to me my doctors, bosses, and people I work with in the future.
I can just imagine Subway surfers playing while my brain surgeon does surgery on me.
How about you try growing up
