The message this sends if it passes is not “don’t spy on people”. The message is “play ball or get banned”. It’s hard to come up with a principled justification

The message this sends if it passes is not “don’t spy on people”. The message is “play ball or get banned”. It’s hard to come up with a principled justification for allowing Facebook to operate with impunity while banning TikTok, unless those principles are highly aligned with those of three letter agencies. This leads me to the cynical interpretation of “national security” objections. The spying was never the issue. It’s who can access the data afterwards that’s the problem. If the US government can’t, then it’s a security concern.