Divesting Tiktok from China isn't a ban, and it's disingenuous to frame it as such while also ignoring the major problem with such control.
Then China was right to ban Google, Facebook, and Reddit? This seems like a war where no one wins. Why not simply ensure platforms are open, neutral, and fair for everyone? (e.g. not reddit)
If China could use protective tariffs against American firms and undercut American production, there's no reason to keep playing a morally pure yet essentially meaningless stance.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple–FBI_encryption_dispute
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_Stat...
From a strictly pragmatic, real-politik point of view, yes.
From my personal point of view, it would be preferable if the US and China were on friendlier terms and were not military and economic adversaries, so that this wasn't a concern.
The US isn't going to care if a French or German or UK company owned a social media company here.
Especially if the channel has ties to China.
(I should obviously take my own advice and add something more substantial to this comment, but the idea that are multiple sides in an war, with different goals, tactics, and with different stakes, is so trivial and self-evident that I'm feeling very silly commenting on it)
Israel's recent genocide was documented largely through Tiktok with the help of the algorithm.
I can imagine this annoyed Israel quite some and the US, I envisage the algorithm being altered to stop this if the it comes under US control, like has been done on Instagram and Facebook.
Alot of footage would not have made it out if it wasn't for Tiktok.