The "liberal" media are bending the knee. They are editing that part from the footage, apparently Facebook is removing posts with this. They are showing that they never were on liberal side, they just existed to control liberals.
You won't find me supporting Twitter or Meta, and I won't deny that their owners do seem to be influenced by foreign governments (directly or indirectly), but TikTok is clearly information Domain Warfare and it would be hell of a stupid to continue allowing it if they are still controlled by Chinese government. This is why that sale is for.
You can't even create TikTok account without installing their app on your phone first. I initially tried and purposefully did not want to have me phone mined, and was unable to register.
But actually the data mining is not the biggest issue even. The biggest issue is that a foreign government (especially since China doesn't work like other Western countries and directly controls what their companies are doing) has influence over 17 million Americans.
This man is no brainier, China clearly acts as an adversary in almost any other category. It regularly hacks our infrastructure, helps Russia with Ukrainian invasion, it wants to invade Taiwan, or ally.
OP was saying that Democrats should go with this ruling to go after Twitter and Meta. I agree, but no way in hell any legislature would happen in those 3 days, especially when House and Senate have majority of Republicans and Twitter and Meta right now appears to be on Republican side.
That's the core reason for requirement to sell it. Right now there's no way to regulate it. It is an app that influences 17 million Americans controlled by a country that right now regularly conducted cyber attacks on our infrastructure. What could go wrong?
Twitter still falls under US law, TikTok doesn't and there's no way to make it, that's the problem.
China is actively helping Russia in Ukraine, it is using backdoors in their technology to hack our infrastructure, was caught with spying, actively prepares to invade Taiwan which of happens will set up our technology backwards as we won't be able to produce latest chips, and you're questioning why US is blocking an app that already has direct influence over 17 million Americans?
China isn't our friend, it doesn't do what a friendly nation would normally do.
As a parent this is fucking scary even if you're 100% legal.
Those are schools, they contain kids, ICE should never be allowed to enter there.
What's other purpose of this than just hurting families?