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"national security concerns" and "what about children" have always been used by government to pass useless bills.

Instead of banning Tiktok, how about enforcing proper rules and regulations that every social media should follow? Why not make a proper privacy that every people in US deserves.

Many people are probably glad that they are banning Chinese tech, but at the end it is gonna be superseded by Instagram which supply more data to three letter organization. The probability that three letter organization abusing our data is more than Chinese government.

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I totally agree with your main point but it is very wrong to equivocate the three letter agencies to the threat authoritarian governments gaining knowledge and thus power over a nation pose.

Agree - in my opinion, the threat from three letter agencies (if one considers the entirety of the things they get up to) far exceeds the threat from China.

I believe TikTok is a MASSIVE threat to those running the show in the US, as it may be the most potent propaganda tool out there, and the US government has many juicy attack vectors that TikTok as a platform is perfect for attacking.

I tend to keep my feed pretty clean of stuff like that, but it does creep in every now and then, who knows how much anti-US propaganda is on the platform that I never encounter but others do (like the agencies who go looking for it, since "Public Relations" dominance is their job).

Because there's essentially no way to enforce the rules.

All user data is processed in China and de software is also Chinese-made. There's no way in hell you'll get access and you can regulate all you want but in the end they'll simply ignore you.

It's the classic "bootleggers and baptists" strategy for passing regulations. It's worked for hundreds of years.

I have to imagine the 3 letter orgs are already scraping tiktok.

Far less information can be gathered by scraping

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