Careful. You’re spilling out ‘logic’ and ‘truths’ here that doesn’t fit WIRED’s narrative. Indeed Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat were banned in China long before TikTok even existed so Wired’s point of ‘hypocrisy’ really falls short at this.

China has other alternative social networks like LINE, Wechat to take their place but alongside the TikTok ban in India, they were also among the 58 apps banned too.

I guess they say it’s hypocrisy because it’s ‘Trump’ doing the ban. But when Biden started to tell his own staff to delete TikTok from their phones it’s apparent that it is more of a security concern than a ‘Trump embarrassment’ issue, such that they have less trust in Chinese-owned tech companies in general.