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by notlukesky 1200 days ago
The US government already controls all these apps and websites all the way up to Wikipedia. Just follow all the exposures coming out now by the likes of Matt Taibbi etc. in fact they jailed CEOs who didn’t comply with the illegal demands of the government like the CEO of Quest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

Look up the Church commission or Edward Snowden. Or the Hamilton files or all the exposes now of how Big Tech was doing all the censorship for the US government both in the US and even abroad to manipulate elections and do election interference everywhere (just like they censored the Hunter Biden story before the US election).

And probably the real reason that they are upset with TikTok is that the FBI etc. doesn’t have as invasive access, control and censorship of TikTok as they do with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Wikipedia and all the others.