> If TikTok is a national sovereignty issue for the US, should a lot of other countries similarly be banning US tech companies? NATO, Five Eyes, and close alli

> If TikTok is a national sovereignty issue for the US, should a lot of other countries similarly be banning US tech companies? NATO, Five Eyes, and close allies like Japan need not bother. Russia, China, Iran, and a few others should, and mostly do. I thought TikTok’s CEO did a great job in the hearing defending themselves, but ByteDance ultimately owns them. We compel companies to provide data silently through court orders all the time in the U.S. and to think China isn’t capable of accessing whatever data they want, at any time, assumes major incompetence of their intelligence services. I think it comes down to this line of thought. China can, so they will, because when we can, we do. China no doubt knows many of our non-public exploits, as we do of theirs. In a real way, this forced sale is a sign of respect.