[Sirius Lee]

The joke is that the U.S. doesn't so much want to shut down tik Tok for illegally harvesting data as it wants the Chinese to sell tik Tok to a derpstate backed US company so that the derpstate can harvest that data. You know, gobble up any of that data it isn't already haresting from Facebook, google, instagram, apple, every telecom, internet provider, every front door ring camera, every store self checkout, every traffic light camera/license plate reader, every credit card or bank card company...

[RandFan]

The computers/servers are in VA and under US control as is the internet infrastructure still

China puts a great big firewall around their’s ...