We need to just make it a fair playing field and if they want to have software startups on the Internet and in App Stores they need to open their markets to our products too.
Because we're a democracy with free speech and open markets, and China is not? Banning foreign speech and competition is not the victory for our way of life that some people seem to think it is.
There is a problem with TikTok - like ALL social media it uses opaque ranking algorithms that serve nefarious interests, and like ALL social media it spies ruthlessly on its users. How about we address those issues, thereby indirectly resolving the TikTok issue too?
Just because we are a democracy with different values to the CCP does not mean we should be taken for fools.