To me the real national security threat is that Americans don't know how to use social media safely. > The potential for abuse from the CCP on the minds of US

To me the real national security threat is that Americans don't know how to use social media safely. > The potential for abuse from the CCP on the minds of US users exists The exact same way Facebook and other U.S. social networks abuse the minds of US users.[1] > as does the tracking the app could do and every data point that is generated is stored and potentially useful for blackmail or otherwise on members of Congress or others. Yep, and in a similar way every large US player hoards as much data about its users as it can get away with, even if it doesn't know what it'll do with it, and eventually loses said data in a giant breach, which can lead to blackmail, etc.[2] And here we sit, either toothlessly regulating the U.S. actors or attempting to ban the foreign ones instead of teaching people how to actually use social media in a way that helps them instead of melting their brains and exposing their deepest secrets to malicious actors. I'm not much of a capitalist or a social darwinist but I'd say the best thing to do is let people learn the hard way. We seem cool to do that with junk food,[3][4] and the similarities in social engineering between the social media and junk food are striking. [1] https://www.chicagotribune.com/2023/08/11/waukegan-district-60-joining-effort-to-sue-facebook-tiktok-other-social-media-for-perceived-harms-to-children/ https://www.chicagotribune.com/2023/08/11/waukegan-district-... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data_breaches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data_breaches [3] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinar... [4] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21999689/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21999689/