I remember a lot of stuff Bush did in the aftermath of 911 that was illegal. Anyone remember Snowden? And Obama did a drone strike on a US citizen. This has been going on a long time but maybe we used to play pretend better.
This has been going on forever, everywhere.
Laws have always applied selectively, particularly when it comes to whatever group is responsible for enforcing them.
The TikTok rationale essentially came to ‘we want genz voters’