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> It is essentially malware with the capability to directly affect electoral politics. It is a necessity that it is banned as soon as possible.

Read my first point above. You are misguided on this issue.

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I agree with your point, except insofar as TikTok is not more harmful than other social media. That is demonstrably false.

And you're going to prove it to us, right? With a link to the New York Times?

Perhaps you'd prefer the South China Morning Post, which had 0 mentions of this incident in its article[0], although to be fair that paper is owned by the Alibaba group, whose CEO magically disappeared for months one time for speaking out against Xi.

It's a good thing we have numerous other sources on the matter[1][2][3].

But I suppose they're all owned by western corporations, so who can we trust? I myself wouldn't trust the paper that casually omitted a crucial detail about the controversy.

[0]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tiktok-chief-tell-us-congress... [1]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/krishnamoorthi-gallagher-tiktok... [2]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/07/tiktok-us... [3]https://www.axios.com/2024/03/07/tiktok-ban-congress-phone-c...

Please demonstrate, then.

> Please demonstrate, then

It starts and ends with whether you trust the CCP. We cannot control the CCP. (We legally can control American social media companies.)

If you think the CCP is innocuous, this bill won't make sense. If you think they're an adversary, this bill is obvious.

Because of their ability to send a push message to their users, urging them to express disapproval of some bill that threatens their existence?

A push message that a number of users reported they couldn't close out until they'd dialed the number, an error which ByteDance only fixed well after the damage had already been done.

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