LogFAQs > #979423392

I feel like there's too much money on the table that TikTok won't divest from China to get around the ban, assuming the senate and president go through with it (which seems unlikely because TikTok is too big to fail)

ConfusedTorchic posted...

i have realized why they care about tiktok and not facebook/twitter, and it's because the us government is unable to actually solicit any information from tiktok like they can with facebook and twitter.

...lolwut? It's the opposite, China actively harvests data from China companies which makes TikTok a national security threat. This goes a lot further than the "maybe the US will" with American social media networks. That's not counting allegations that China manipulates the app to push state propaganda, which is far less of an issue.

Keep in mind that TikTok has seen restrictions throughout many nations at this point, but literally no other social media platform. This isn't just a US concern, it's a "anyplace-outside-China" concern.... well, overlooking that TikTok itself is banned in China. Instead, China has a pro-CCP sister version of the app.