I tried to tell you guys that this is what the whole TikTok thing was really about. It has nothing to do with data safety considering half the app store is also from Chinese companies with the exact same condition, and no one in Washington wanted to address that.

The mass data leak from the US to China is like water flowing through a sive. Anyone who argues that we should plug up one hole and only one hole is either an idiot or as an alternate motive.

That alternate motive was that TikTok was allowing young people in the US to talk about Israel negatively. So congress went ahead and singled them out, and collapsed their business if they wouldn’t comply on the real issue or get bought out by Steven Mnuchin and friends who would definately implement a different content policy

Remember that the first person to be angling to buy this was a US federal employee and departmental officer and his business partners.

This is why you don’t let your government single out single business even if they are Chinese. How bad does that look to any other foreign company from any country that congress crashed a business and then tried to offer the wrecked business to a government employee on a discount sale? At least if they don’t adopt a policy of banning speech protesting a genocide committed by someone our congress chooses to like (why I don’t understand?). Like do you all understand how this is a bad pattern.

The whole idea of attacking TikTok should have been dismissed as an idea on that alone regardless of the details. This is why laws are meant to address behavior and not companies, so it applies to everyone big or small, so congress can’t single out or bully companies that differ from congress’s political tastes (in this case the political taste that genocide is good when Israel does it).

This is why the phrase “Congress is deciding if {company} will be banned” is something we should have all picked up on as being absurd and unacceptable unless we live in idiocracy. Those are words that should never exist no matter the circumstances. If any of this had been legitimate it would have been “Congress is deciding if sending American personal data to Chinese servers will be made illegal.”

But congratulations. No one argued the principle and now you can’t say Free Palestine on TikTok because it’s hate speech. Because wanting people to be free and or not be bombed is hate speech now. There is no way TikTok would have come to that content policy decision if they weren’t bullied. Now we see the point of the bullying.