> Yea but even Fox News isn't anti-American. And yet they are still a propaganda platform, which is the point. Whether they are anti-American or not is debata

> Yea but even Fox News isn't anti-American. And yet they are still a propaganda platform, which is the point. Whether they are anti-American or not is debatable. At the most I would say they do not care for Americans, only their profits. Their downplay of COVID has undoubtedly contributed to the deaths of thousands of Americans. > I also don't think there is any discussion that needs to happen with Bytedance or TikTok. What are we supposed to talk about? You do not believe in due process? TikTok has stated that no data is overturned and all data is stored in the US. At the very least a discussion around this would involve third party audits prior to a ban. Furthermore, a sane and reasonable leader would pass laws for TikTok to adhere to prior to a ban, but there was no discussion about what steps TikTok could actually take to assuage these fears. Just baseless accusations. > Did the Chinese have similar discussions with Google? Google and Facebook were free to operate in China so long as they adhered to the law. Both companies chose to pull out as they found the laws objectionable. Other companies - LinkedIn, GitHub - adhere to the law and are free to continue operating in China. Trump is not giving TikTok a law to adhere to. That is why this is different, unprecedented, and unjust.