serial-unaliver-deactivated2024:

the entire argument to ban tiktok from dems and republicans previously has been “national security threats” from china, with the evidence of tiktok as a national security threat being “just trust me”

now people have brought up since the beginning that this is obviously in reality a politically and financially motivated ban, but like a year ago on here you’d get called a CCP shill for saying “maybe the US government does not have good intentions with the tiktok ban” lol

“national security” as an argument for restriction of freedom of information from the US government should be an immediate red flag not a fucking sign of good policy. like does anyone remember the patriot act?