Well fine but then: 1. Congress should pass a law 2. Companies from China should not be singled out by name, but rather selected by fixed criteria. 3. The la

Well fine but then: 1. Congress should pass a law 2. Companies from China should not be singled out by name, but rather selected by fixed criteria. 3. The law should be conditioned on specific conditions in China such that if those conditions change, the door is automatically reopened. 4. Perhaps, have a way Chinese companies to own foreign subsidiaries that keep the data outside of China, and provide some way to audit all the feed prioritization. Maybe that means banning foreign-trained proprietary neural networks, if they are hopeless mess that makes everything plausibly deniable. Oh and slap on a huge confiscatory tariff so this option isn't too rosy. Seriously, everyone is acting under a false choice of "neoliberal turn the other cheek" and "stoop to China's level". Those are both shit choices. We should: 1. Find a way to use TikTok to give Facebook some long overdue competition, while keeping American data safe, while giving China some actual incentives to change their behavior. 2. Channel this new fear into understanding that the US fucking you over due to surveillance and censorship is only slightly better than China fucking you over for those reasons.