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Justice Department fights back against TikTok lawsuit as forced app sale or US ban looms
(www.usatoday.com)
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You can't put aside the fact that China is a hostile power that actively facilitates cyberattacks against the US. There's a huge difference between the US government being complicit in hacking for the sake of gathering information about threats and the Chinese government being complicit in ransomware and similar actual massively damaging attacks.
I also support limiting everyone else's data gathering. It's also a problem. But it is not anywhere near the level of an enemy controlling a malicious propaganda network. TikTok is a huge threat to national security, and the slow play instead of an outright ban has already done huge damage.