HORRIBLE precedent. Anyone supporting this is supporting paid for censorship. Miss me with the national security and "brain rot" arguments, that's just pretext, this country actively promote several things FAR more harmful to society. This is purely about money and control nothing more nothing less. Pathetic.
Any company in china gotta hand over access to user data whenever they say so. Tik Tok got a few hundred million US users. Our government is saying hell naw, that dangerous, the Chinese government don’t need access to all that data from US citizens to do lord knows what. Some people argue that US companies like Facebook and IG turn their data over to the US government so what’s the difference. The difference is it’s china and those our fukking opps nikka.
Now with that said, anyone who think china aint already got that data from tick tok dumb as hell. And there are other china based companies that have to turn over data too, but none of them as big and widespread as tik tok. If this ban goes through, you will like see more companies get banned in the future though