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Europe doesn't have a competitor for TikTok. America has Facebook and Instagram that stand to win billions with a ban.

I also observe that the US tech bro billionaires have been complaining about how mean Europe is to them.

If anything, Europe is more protectionist about data security, so European nations should have a bigger concern about the claims of ByteDance siphoning user data.

Europe already implements consistent data privacy regulations for all apps operating in Europe. No particular inconsistency in singling out TikTok over Meta

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