TikTok bills could dangerously expand national security state

This shows that the bills are much more about punitive measures for people using Chinese services in general than it is about broader privacy or national security. It isn't just TikTok being targeted, it is all Chinese tech. That goes pretty far.

Side note: this fell off the front pages quickly. Not sure if it got booted to the shadow realm.

Unfortunately, as long as the CCP rules China all Chinese companies will fall under the supreme control of the CCP.

Note how the article doesn't mention the CCP, it talks about China and the Chinese "government" like if we are dealing with Canada or UK and not with an authoritarian regime, supporter of pariah states like Putin's regime and hostile to America and its allies.

The argument that TikTok is not doing anything worse than any other American social media app is tiresome.

We don't need to deny the fact that American social media companies are abusing loopholes in our justice system to harm American citizens, to recognize that a massive surveillance system deployed by a dictatorship, geopolitical adversary and military power like the CCP on American soil via social media platforms like TikTok represents a much greater thread to our institutions and national security than anything Meta, Google or any other American company could be acussed of doing.