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What do you mean what took us so long? As far as I know, practically no country has fully banned TikTok. If you mean banned on government devices: firstly, the US did do that, just like the EU, and secondly, that’s not even the real problem (which is propaganda and manipulating what media people constantly consume)

Has your country done a full TikTok ban?

Anyways, like the other comment said, this issue in America is less about do we trust China (a majority of people don’t) or do we want to be saints, and more about rights. Outright blocking an app (or website for that matter) at all is completely unprecedented in the US, as far as I know. And the second part is that TikTok is incredibly popular, which means banning it would be possibly ruinous for someone’s election chances.