As a European that has been dealing with what US social media companies have been doing, I am enjoying how the US is loosing their absolute mind when an external company does the same they do to us.
But for uninterested 3rd parties, it's quite entertaining the bitchslap games that China and the US play with these sort of policies (Google ban, tiktok ban, etc).
We sure do always come up with great and grand sounding reasons for everything though, at least to an American ear. It's only once your cynicism hits ridiculous levels that everything starts to suddenly make so much more sense.
[1] - https://www.wired.com/story/joe-biden-tiktok-campaign-commen...
For example are you saying that they are showing content to European youth to sow discord or something like that, or are you only talking about the data collection/mining?
Data collection and the ability for the government to gain access to this data without a warent.
Also lack of transparency regarding the algorithms which are built to cause maximum reaction / interaction which leads to radicalism.
Facebook was famously implicated in the genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority in Myanmar.
>does the same they do to us
So you're saying that the US ought to be on your country's equivalent of the US government's "foreign adversaries" list <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_adversar...>, which includes China, that the proposed bill specifically targets? That's fine. I guess you won't have any objections to the US leaving NATO since you wouldn't want your country/continent to be in a military alliance with such a country.
VK has been the primary platform in the CIS for over a decade now at this point.
And even Signal was started in the US.
I will never understand your particular brand of whataboutism.