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House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure, attaching it to foreign aid bill (www.npr.org)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

TikTok is very heavily influenced by the CCP and could be used to collect data from Americans (probably they already are). Not wanting your biggest geopolitical rival to harvest data from your citizens is pretty understandable.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

Chinese government is a lot less a threat to me compared to the US. We are at most two elections cycles away from a Christian Nationalism state. China is over there, not my problem. I can avoid them if I want.