It was always really obvious to me what banning tik tok was about: the US intelligence agencies can’t infiltrate or control it. They can’t control the narrative. It was never about “national security” in terms of Americans’ data being used abroad (if they cared about data privacy they’d rein in American companies…) nor is it about how addictive it is (again, no problem with American companies) the “national security” is that the nation doesn’t have a press beholden to it like how the establishment infiltrates all of American media. Btw I hate tik tok and don’t trust China for a second. But this is about the US government losing control and the plebes thinking for themselves instead of being told (at least by the American plutocrats) what to think.