So if you love TikTok you have to
give it up? Just hearing this - forcing a sale? Don't want to endanger US security in any way. But jeez 
Per CNBC..
The White House threw its support behind a new bipartisan Senate bill that would give the Biden administration the power to ban TikTok in the U.S.
The RESTRICT Act would empower the Commerce Secretary to mitigate "undue or unacceptable risk" to national security posed by technology transactions in which foreign adversaries have an interest.
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grown too big to control? So huge that the average person just accepts it? ( As long as no unknown credit card charges or identity stolen). Your article says TikTok had one billion users!
Was in Walgreens and bought a little known shampoo. That very afternoon, I start seeing ads for that very same shampoo. Found out that because I signed up for a Walgreens customer card, their inventory system tracked that I bought this shampoo and immediately sells to advertiser. Since they had my email, boom I get an ad. ( And boom the advertiser gets put on my spam list.)
Just a small personal example, I know. I know no national secrets so I imagine I'm ignored by China 
... but it is my opinion.
The People's Republic of China has often required Western countries that want to do business in China do so as part of a joint venture with a local Chinese company. Now this may have eased over the past few years but practically any major western brand that you know that may exist in China exists and trades there as a joint venture. Chinese companies haven't had those same restrictions imposed on them in the Western world.
So if relations between the West and PRC deteriorate maybe just maybe the West can de-liberate (is that a word?) our markets and require investors from non friendly countries to invest or exist only as a joint venture.
Honestly I think it's Bytedance the company being squeezed between two government systems (PRC and "The West"
and I don't think the Chinese Communist Party is really interested what a lot of foreigners are posting on the Clock App - as long as it's not critical of the CCP.
However relations between the US and PRC are rocky and if Bytedance has to spin off its US and EU businesses into joint ventures then so be it. Outright ban on TikTok shouldn't be on the cards as that is IMO a 1A violation to just ban it but a company restructuring would be OK.
Response to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)
Response to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)
to point out what you are correctly saying now.
TikTok ban, Willow oil project approval, family separation on immigration, bigfooting home rule for DC, carbon bomb mega oil lease auction for the Gulf (that was earlier than the others) etc etc.
Ever since Ron Klain left as CoS, (Klain was the conduit to the left half of our Party) it is like someone looked at this:
and said
'OMG!, we cannot have 18 to 34 year olds supporting Biden as the nominee in 2024 by a net 48 points HIGHER than the older Gen Xers and the younger Boomers'. Quick!, let's start supporting things they hate, even if it means we are breaking multiple foundational campaign promises and tactics (smashing Trump over and over and over on family separation, for instance).
