Yesterday afternoon, Governor Stitt signed an executive order banning TikTok from all Oklahoma state devices in the name of cyber security, which I guess means state employees will now have to use their personal phones and computers to waste time, compromise their personal data, and make themselves dumber.
The order has more to do with grandstanding and falling in line with GOP propaganda than providing a solution to an actual problem, but as one who hates TikTok and thinks algorithmic short-form videos are the crack cocaine of social media and poison the human brain, I’m all for it.
TikTok is now banned from state devices and state networks in Oklahoma.
— Governor Kevin Stitt (@GovStitt) December 8, 2022
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