> any replacement would be US only The rest of the world will likely follow. Also most of the world has already accepted that US tech firms have all their data

> any replacement would be US only The rest of the world will likely follow. Also most of the world has already accepted that US tech firms have all their data, but don’t want China to have it. If there’s a feasible alternative to TikTok then banning it in Indonesia or Poland or Brazil becomes much easier for the politicians.