Meanwhile a country like India has an actual TikTok ban, and as far as anyone can tell there have been 0 negative consequences, and likely a ton of positive ones for not having your youth hooked to a completely algorithmically driven entertainment/information source that also happens to be run by one of the most authoritarian regimes in the world that is currently engaged in all sorts of hostile activities against nearly every country including especially their neighbors.
Unlike the US, India and China have had real wars between them.
Coupled with the fact there are laws against what communications from the US government are considered propaganda (thus illegal), gives US adversaries a significant leg up on being able to influence the population.