re: Tik Tok: Serious Question

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This is election year propaganda at the finest.

Look, every app you put on your phone collects data and sells it to nefarious groups. If this one app is shut down, whatever, the Chi-coms will get your information another way.

The fact that this is some unheard of national security risk is absurd. Be careful (and tell your kids to be careful) with what you post online and what you save on your phone.

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Election year propaganda for who? If Trump can force ByteDance's hand to sell TikTok(US), I wouldn't call that propaganda.

The real prize is the algorithm, which ByteDance is refusing (under orders of the CCP) to sell. That's what Microsoft and other tech companies want. They want to take the algorithm, bring it up to US security standards, and profit.