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Countries blocking companies from operating on national security grounds is hardly new in the US or anywhere really.

It might be the first US mobile app however I will grant you that.



I don't think anyone's arguing that it's not legitimate for a country to ban a company on national security grounds, but that this is stretching the definition of what constitutes a national security threat.

Which companies currently banned in the US would you say are comparable to TikTok in terms of the threat they could potentially pose?


I would say that mass surveillance by a foreign country is not a stretch.




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