> But should the US government, given the current developments, ban Twitter and/or Facebook? Twitter and Facebook are blocked in China. Going from a philosophi

> But should the US government, given the current developments, ban Twitter and/or Facebook? Twitter and Facebook are blocked in China. Going from a philosophical question to a current policy question, the existing context has to be taken into account. There is no equivalent reason for banning the apps. > Because they are quite literally doing the same as TikTok. I think they (Facebook/Twitter) are doing very different things from Tik Tok right now. They are certainly a vector for the US states/feds to mine and use data (as has been admitted and demonstrated). In the way the data is available to a government, there is an equivalence with Tik Tok. > Now, is TikTok spying for China? I define spying narrowly. I don't think it's "spying" but the infrastructure of Tik Tok presents an information vulnerability to the USA, which represents a harm. This is the basis of my justification as I am making the distinction. > Either way, forcing TikTok hand is not a move made to protect US citizens. I think it is a move that protects US citizens. The official justification is paper thin Trump revenge tactics (not racism, imo). Given, I give no credence to most of what Trump says, I don't care about the justification anyway.