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by peteontherun 2100 days ago
Although this is very reactionary and targeted, I hope it eventually spurs a structured process to handle issues like these, ie:

a) Clear criteria for what constitutes an app national security risk

b) An actual government process to evaluate, respond, and enforce against all potential app threats (not just based on popularity, though scale is a factor in prioritization)

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I'd rather they not institutionalize this. More bureaucracy isn't going to be meaningful if this is the model, the bureaucracy will just exist to whitewash this stuff in the future.
I also prefer "less authoritarianism" to "more reasonable authoritarianism".