> It's clearly a response to people getting unfiltered news from Tiktok that it otherwise not presented on mainstream media at all. It's why the ban was in the

> It's clearly a response to people getting unfiltered news from Tiktok that it otherwise not presented on mainstream media at all. It's why the ban was in the defense spending bill last week. These kinds of unrelated laws attached to bills that are likely to pass are called "riders", and they've been used since the early days of Congress. Attaching the TikTok rider to the defense spending bill doesn't necessarily mean that Congress sees it as related to national defense, just that the leaders saw it more likely to easily pass when attached to a defense bill. Also, I'm positive that I heard about the Ohio derailment on Reddit before mainstream media coverage, and there's no way it wasn't on Twitter either. But those companies aren't targeted in this ban because they aren't owned by foreign adversaries.