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I don't use TikTok, but I strongly disapprove of this. Feels like we've stooped to China's level when it comes to free speech? All this has done is validate them banning Google and Facebook.

What a petty move. I understand the theoretical security concerns, but this feels like total overkill.

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This is either a bullshit argument or a wildly uninformed opinion. We've been banning foreign ownership of TV and radio in the US since 1934. How is this any different?

This isn't accurate. The government has never banned Americans from watching a foreign television show or listening to a foreign radio broadcast. Please don't distort history.

But they have banned books, Mr. Chinese troll: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_banning_in_the_United_Sta...

American as apple pie. I know my rights.

They already banned Facebook and Google. We should reciprocate everything they do to us.

Why?

Because you can't have good relations with someone when they profit off of you but don't allow you to.

If your neighbor kept borrowing cups of sugar from you, but never lends you any sugar, would you keep giving him sugar?

Yes, it’s what Christ requires of us

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