Mississippi Wi-Fi network at state offices put to test after governor bans TikTok - WAPT Jackson

Gov. Tate Reeves enactment the kibosh connected TikTok.Last month, the politician issued a directive to section and bureau heads banning the fashionable Chinese-owned app connected each state-issued mobile devices. The determination came amid fears of "extensive tracking of idiosyncratic information and the imaginable entree and transportation of the day to the Chinese government."The prohibition besides applies to the state’s Wi-Fi web astatine authorities buildings and nationalist universities, similar Jackson State. WAPT wanted to find retired if TikTok truly is blocked, truthful a quality unit enactment it to the test, archetypal astatine the JSU pupil union.TikTok videos popular up momentarily due to the fact that the app was antecedently unfastened connected the telephone earlier getting connected the university’s network. The app worked erstwhile utilizing compartment telephone information but said determination was nary net connection.JSU pupil JoJo Roa said helium didn’t cognize TikTok was banned. He said helium has had occupation logging on."I deliberation it’s shocking. It’s a small shocking, for sure. I didn’t deliberation that would happen,” Roa said. "I would accidental the past mates of days, the past past week, the Wi-Fi has been slow, truthful I’ve been similar disconnecting from the wi-fi connecting to service."The JSU IT Department sent an email to students and module to delete the app from state-owned devices by the extremity of January. Roa said helium has nary occupation with the TikTok ban.“There are plentifulness of different societal media platforms, you cognize what I’m saying?” Roa said. “I tin spell connected Instagram. If I was addicted to TikTok, past I would spot it arsenic a problem. But it’s not excessively large a woody to me.”It’s unclear however agelong the prohibition volition last. Some TikTok critics privation President Joe Biden to artifact it from each cellphones crossed the country.