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To me this signals that TikTok isn't sharing with the 3-letter agencies and they don't like it.

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It's been happening lower than the federal level. :) There seem to be reasons for it with substance.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/alabama-utah-become-latest-...

It makes a lot of sense for one gov to not want their BYOD policies affected by foreign (read adversary) countries. Cool.

It doesn't make sense to cut TikTok from US civilian devices because: Land of the free, free speech etc etc etc.

The other guy you replied to is correct, CIA/NSA et all don't like they can't swing their ducks into Bytedance servers and doctorate the content without exposing intelligence agencies MO to the Chinese.

Every American should be fighting against such bill because when domestic cronies own all domestic media, you guys are in a virtual China. Media plurality is the beacon of a healthy democracy, so suck it up Rubio

Skipping all the baggage that's formed around the TikTok ban/no-ban, do you think nothing should be done about a powerful foreign country with ill-will having direct access to an incredible amount of US citizen data? Even if you don't think a ban is reasonable, the current state of affairs in this regard can't continue, or do you think otherwise?

Let's turn that around: what kind of control do US three letter agencies have over Facebook etc, given how much they fear the Chinese having the same?

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