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TikTok pushed a notifications to all US users with the phone numbers of their local congressmen to oppose the bill. So many calls came in that the phone lines were jammed.
Let me distill that for you: China attempted to directly influence legislation with a mass propaganda campaign targeted at its US user base.
Please explain to me why that isn't a threat and why the US should allow hostile foreign powers to directly influence internal politics?
We've already established that Tiktok Tok is not the CCP. That's what the whole first "gonna ban TikTok" fiasco was over. It's why they don't store US data in China but continue to do business in the US.
That would be a business using the 1st amendment right (which everyone gets, not just citizens) to free speech to use it's platform to ask it's users to do something directly beneficial to them. Nothing illegal about it unless you want to reevaluate that "TikTok is the CCP" claim again.