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		2OEH8eoCRo0 on June 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app sto... How would you enforce it though? It's like in the 90s when PGP was export controlled. It was a total unenforceable joke.

tjoff on June 29, 2022 [–]

Depends on the goal, PGP sure. Anyone who wanted could get it but it was still a hurdle. A hurdle that for sure would kill tiktok, or at least enough for it to be irrelevant.

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