520 karma · joined February 13, 2025
These are the people who will determine whether or not you get a visa over a statement both you and I see as benign. Anything other than explicit endorsement is seen as adversarial.
You can find literature to support that claim for Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter, not just Tiktok. The Making of a Youtube Radical was a big story back in 2019. Facebook won the election for Trump in 2016. Twitter is owned by a Nazi who routinely boost far-right conspiracy theories.
The answer isn't banning Tiktok but passing strong privacy and data legislation that affects all social media platforms. Not just Tiktok. US social media companies have been pulling on the seams of society far before Tiktok arrived.
You are operating on the assumption that there will be fair election in 4 years and that Dems will retake the White House. Both of those are unlikely. Trump has almost killed democrarcy in 3 months. I'm sure he'll get the job done in another 3.75 years.