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You're just spouting whataboutism. It's not an argument, it's a deflection tactic.
I have no love for Instagram or Facebook. IMO they should both be banned and have all data erased. The planet would be better off without them.
But that's not the topic of conversation.
The US isn't an adversarial country to itself. The CCP is an adversarial country to the US, and most of the world.
Ah yes, so the CCP is A-OK because you claim they have a "less violent history". Makes perfect sense.
Tell me, how many people died during the Long March and the "Great" Leap Forward?
In any case, the bill is not about banning TikTok. The bill is about selling ownership of TikTok to a US owned firm to take away control from the CCP. And then only if a sale cannot be arranged, to ban it as a last resort.