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by Entinel 1133 days ago
They don't want to ban it. They want to be pass an Orwellian surveillance bill and Tiktok is being used as a boogeyman.
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In lieu, they'll take TikTok's subservience in giving them access to the data, as with all the other social media companies. It's the one reason I think my data is SAFER in TikTok than in Facebook. If the NSA had a backdoor into it like all the others, they wouldn't care.
Who is "they"?
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/s686/cosponsors along with I assume intelligence organizations.