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by thehappypm 524 days ago
> If China sold candies that contained poison and marketed them to Us children, it would be easy, since the FDA prohibits this.

The FDA was created by an act of Congress, as was this ban. These are identical scenarios -- the FDA has a mandate to block certain things, as does the TikTok ban. What's being debated is the constitutionality of it; and there are arguments both ways, but it seems very likely that the ban will hold.