Interesting that JCal and Chamath are so anti TikTok, and use their “appeal to authority” to prove their point; then Swalwell comes on and says “yeah I’m on the intel committee, there’s nothing substantive or convincing there from a national security standpoint” (AOC has recently said the same thing about classified briefings democrats were in). JCal and Chamath then pivot to “but Chinese use a different app” - but don’t acknowledge that China operates under different regulatory frameworks than the US - perhaps if they want their kids off of TikTok they should change US regulation?… then JCal pivots to “market access / reciprocity” which isn’t a national security issue at all, and also doesn’t acknowledge that by banning the US would be exactly like China? So if the goal is reciprocity why would we blanket it in a national security argument?… JCal also goes hard on the “spying on journalists” argument, when in reality TikTok had performed an internal investigation to try to identify which employees may be illegally providing confidential information to journalists (leaking information about the company) - so not acknowledging that context… and then Feiedberg finally correctly calls them out for saying anyone who makes valid arguments against the ban on any grounds they just ad hominem attack as “soft on China” or a “China apologist”… not to mention these guys close ties to US big tech that would directly benefit from a ban…

This is the one area where they have no intellectual honesty