Every business in China is connected to the Chinese government to some extent. It’s wrong and, dare I say, unAmerican to bar our citizens from accessing Chinese apps, news sites, or other forms of communication.
Rand Paul is right. I hope and believe these censorship efforts will fail.
Next step is to petition Congress to change the law.
Especially now that we have a taste with TikTok being banned for a day or two.
It may fail, but I think you lack appreciation of the degree that the CHinese use these apps to collect information in the event of a war. With these apps, for example, China will know when and where to attack to defeat the US with one shot because they know where and when to do the maximum damage.
I have never used TikTok; I like to watch video that has been taken in landscape rather than portrait mode. I haven’t heard that TikTok users are any more likely to be victims of having their identities stollen than other people. It seems to be a platform that mostly young people have any interest in. Does the Chinese government give a rat’s butt about spying on your typical TikTok user or stealing information about them. It does not seem that likely.
President Trump has hinted that he is going to “save” the app... If that happens that will be good enough for me to have basically no concerns.