[vorpalhex]

Which is why we're banning them using the tool for that situation (a foreign company who is acting in a way unaligned to the interests of US citizens) and not arresting them.

We are under no duty to allow the CCP to act within our borders.

[yibg]

If we ban any company that complies with laws we don't like, taken to the extreme doesn't that lead to every country banning companies from every other country that doesn't have laws that map exactly to their own?

[vorpalhex]

Do you really think banning CCP backed companies from hoovering up the personal data of Americans en masse is an extreme?

Every country enforces their laws. If a US company violated gdpr, I would expect them to be fined and banned from the EU.

[yibg]

This isn't talking about banning a specific company for violating local laws. This is talking about banning all companies from a specific country because that country has laws the US doesn't agree with. Should Europe ban all American companies because the US doesn't have GDPR? Or flip it around, which US law did Tiktok violate?

[colejohnson66]

Then why are we singling our TikTok? Why not ban any Chinese company from operating within our borders?

[kube-system]

TikTok hasn't been singled out. The US has pretty much done the same for all Chinese communication tech that operates in the US: Huawei, ZTE, WeChat.