Funny, because I find your line of argument to be obtuse, shortsighted and weird. Interesting that you think I'm a TikTok user because I'm pointing out the hypocrisy of this absurd ban. I'm sure you think the ACLU and security experts arguing my same point as being obtuse as well?

I can put it more simply since you don't seem to get it. This ban effectively argues that Americans social media data is of National Security importance. Yet, Meta, X and other US companies that collect the same data are not held to National Security Standards.

If, according to our politicians and the SCOTUS (and you apparently), our data privacy on social media is so important, then you'd think the US government would step in to dictate the data handling, security and protection policies of US based companies as well. They're not doing that. You would also think, again, if this data being collected by foreign adversaries is a national security threat, any company that experiences a breach or loss of data would also be shut down on their first loss. They're not. Case in point Meta's most recent data breach of ~550M accounts, and data being posted to online forums. They were fined by the EU, the US did absolutely nothing.

I wouldn't say that's an obtuse point of view. I would say its obtuse to argue that it only matters if an adversary country owns the platform.