it would be one thing if they were actually going to ban it, but the plan is pretty plainly for deep state establishment to seize it so that the US government can do all the awful things that they're accusing the Chinese government of doing. Remember y'all, the difference between information and propaganda is "Do I like the person who is currently speaking?" and nothing more.

"Can you do something so that any given incel can't shoot 30 of us while we hide under our desk." - kids

"Literally go fuck yourself also no tik tok because it could be dangerous." - government

TikTok isn’t your “right”, and if you say that banning tiktok is talking away your rights, TikTok’s taking away people’s lives

Lemmy is mostly children isn't it

• Are different, unrelated things
• Involve different parts of government
• Involve different people in charge
• Is smoothbrain understanding of criminal investigations
• Is smoothbrain understanding of due process

I'm starting to fly down some 'conspiracy hole' about this shit: I can't trust or even hope that the avalanche of memes like these aren't Chinese (or Russian? they love stirring our shit up for the lulz) in origin. This paranoia reinforces itself in a loop