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Do the Chinese have a FOX news, for example, or an X/Twitter site or an FR site?

Apples and oranges.

Sure, China censors within China. But TikTok provides an additional means of uncensored communication in the West. That's a good thing.

China wants to know (or spy) on everything and every thought that Americans put forth.

Fine. What do I care if China monitors my thoughts? So does the U.S. government through American social media.

The difference is, China can't touch me. Can't deplatform me, or debank me, or try to ostracize me, or arrest me. The American government and tech oligarchs can.

I'd rather Chinese and American tech oligarchs each own some social media, than American tech oligarchs own all of social media.

The difference is, China can't touch me.

Don't look now, but, YES! they do.

China is into every product that you touch or handle or hear or see or breathe. And, TikTok might not be directly in touch with you, but everything they do in TikTok will affect you and me and everybody else that's ever heard of China.

TikTok is just one way to get at you, directly or indirectly.

The CCP is the biggest reason that America spends so much dough for defense, and TikTok makes a lot of things easier for the CCP to accomplish.

And, China does monitor your thoughts, even if not directly through TikTok. The Chinese are also big users of all our media sites, whether social or news or whatever. Look up! There might be a Chinese balloon monitoring all your communications, from directly above your head. If not a balloon, then, a satellite equipped to see and hear everything that comes out of your head. We're not in the '60s anymore. That 'phone' in your hands likely has a Chinese chip that collects and sends your communications to China, in some unbeknownst form or another.