[anniefrost]

There are literally thousands of apps that do that, but they were targeting TikTok?

This is a political and economical move, if this is how US and Trump wanted it to be, by forcing another company to sell into another local company then it would be a forced acquisition and this would make other companies to reconsidered to invest or build their company in the US.

By this rule, other country in this case China could also enforced banning on services and products into their market with the reason of "Security, Influence and State Control"