It's because money money money, nomnomnom

https://coub.com/view/23wglk

Because Zuckerberg spent a lot of money bribing Congress into this opinion. And everyone in Congress owns Facebook stock, so TikTok is a security threat to their portfolio balance.

Edit: Another provable fact being downvoted by people who read too much Tom Clancy and don't understand how vulnerable all apps are.

The problem with tiktok, x, or even red note is that the government ends up with an alternative to their narrative. They can't have any of that.

A good example is Israel/Palestine genocide. They lost the narrative war, people woke up. It's very difficult to put them back to sleep.

A lot easier to just ban the platform. Security is just an excuse/tool to do so.

because they might interfere with the elections. oh wait...

Yoo shut yer mouf, ya hear!

Jokes aside. Yeah, I've got no answer.

Edit: I do love the middle finger people are giving by hopping off TikTok (basically being shut down for being a Chinese company) and running to redd (a Chinese company) hahahahahha

It has nothing to do with security. It has everything to do with controlling speech and maintaining management of public narratives. This became an urgent issue for the oligarchy when they lost control of Israel genocide discourse. This is what fascist states do. They are just getting started.

The security at risk is that of the white tech monopoly my friend

Banning the one mentioned is partisan

The govt isn't getting money from it?