I don't use Tik Tok, but a lot of my friends do. I am going to be quite frank, millions of people use it, all over the world, and even if government officials don't use it while at work, I will bet you that they will use it on their personal phone. Here's the thing: How do you convince millions of people in the US to get rid of it, especially among those between 16-25? It's one thing to say that Tik Tok is a Chinese propaganda tool, but it's another to convince people to get rid of it. I think China knows that as long as people still use the app, they are none the wiser to what is going on behind the scenes. Also, since it's mostly targeted to people 16-25, people in that group probably think that Tik Tok is just another app to do certain things, probably because they don't see the threat of it.
I never used Tik Tok, so I can't speak for myself. But China knows that people will still use it, and people will find ways around it to use it. I am not saying this because I support China. I don't, but again, millions of people use it in the US alone, and again, I have friends that are liberal/democratic that use it. It's popular regardless of political affiliation, and people use it for comedy, singing, dancing, that sort of thing. So hypothetically, let's say that I am one of those people who use it. Assuming that I didn't know that Tik Tok was used by the Chinese government to collect data on people, I would think, "What dangers would lie with that? I don't see it as dangerous." The point is, people are not going to think it is dangerous because someone said that. They would need proof. Now are people going to disregard that even if there is, yes. However, I don't think that people will get rid of it because of course the app developers are not going to say that it is used by the Chinese government, hence they will not see a reason for why it should be banned.
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