Artificially suppressing competition is the most anti-capitalist and anti-American thing I've ever seen, no matter how shitty this particular app may be.
don't like seeing apps delivered exclusively via stores that can implement these daft bans, ecosystem taxes etc.
also ignore people yapping about China being such a huge adversary when the 2 countries do close to a trillion USD yearly in trade, it's all lip service to get their competition killed unfairly so they don't have to innovate or an attempt to scare the govt/some LPs into funding their most often useless faux-nationalist bullshit without oversight.
> it's all lip service to get their competition killed unfairly
I think that you'd have a point here if we were talking about a country that allowed their citizens unfettered access American social media apps but China does not do that.
If seems foolish to play by a set of rules that the other side does not. This isn't competition in a normal sense.
All ByteDance has to do is sell for a generous valuation