>As suspicious as the US federal government is, I don't think what those companies do is as tightly coupled with the government as TikTok and China. They have

>As suspicious as the US federal government is, I don't think what those companies do is as tightly coupled with the government as TikTok and China. They have backdoors to all major tech companies, they actively try to control discourse in social media and they just bailed out their tech sector. If that's not being tightly coupled, I don't know what is. >Do you think the Chinese government is generally hostile to the long term success of Western liberalism? No >Do you think the Chinese government has meaningful influence on the behavior of TikTok or its recommendation engine? Probably but no concrete evidence exists >Do you think TikTok data on its hundreds of millions of users is available for general analysis to the Chinese government? To the same extent our data is available to the US and its allies, yes. But China cannot do much with my data, my government can.