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Let's say TikTok was the same exact company founded in another country, do you believe that the conversation about banning it would be the same? With some exceptions (maybe Russia, for example), I seriously doubt it.

Ok. Why can’t we use Google and Facebook in China again?

Ah yes, because China can totally tolerate competition.

They made a better opium that happens to also track and read the minds of users.

Some of us think all social media is trash for the mind and society, and think it's doubleplusungood when a hostile foreign power controls the algo.

You're implying that I root for Instagram. That's not the angle.