nobody ever answers that

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All they do is switch to "we should ban Meta and Twitter too, they collect data" when everyone full well knows the main issue is a foreign power with a history of launching hundreds of cyber attacks against us controlling a powerful propaganda network with zero transparency.

The TikTok defenders don't feel comfortable discussing the real issues security experts and pols have with the service, so they pivot to whataboutism or easier to defend aspects. Plus TikTok itself has been serving up tons of disinformation on this subject that these defenders have spent the last two years gobbling up, regurgitating it verbatim as if it's their own argument.

Which kind of underlines the main propaganda network point.