GOP rams through TikTok ban bill over Dem objections

[ancianita]

26. Well, then,

you should also know that it can't legally get separated from Chinese ownership. Microsoft tried to buy it, and its Chinese corp owner refused to sell.

Too bad if it's outlawed. That's exactly right -- not all decisions have to be popular. It's a good lesson that Biden and the law will be willing and able to give the younger crowd and stupid celebrities.

If we have to address Chinese "influence" through its data draw, then banning its widespread existence is how we do it. There's no reason there can't be a reverse engineered version by an American company. It would be hilariously ironic after all this time that China's done it to our tech, right? Time to cut the siphoning tentacles of this self proclaimed hostile power out of our nation.