A graph of people, who they know, their movements, lifestyles, and political beliefs is mostly certainly a national security concern, regardless of whether it's

A graph of people, who they know, their movements, lifestyles, and political beliefs is mostly certainly a national security concern, regardless of whether it's widely known. Addressing "change the algorithm to promote their own talking points" is what I meant by "maintain competition by requiring open interoperability". Bundling content publishing/hosting services together with client presentation software (including feed ranking editorialization) is anticompetitive and should be prohibited by requiring published APIs for all interaction between the two products. Then users could use competitive clients to access TikTok content (and Facebook content, etc), rather than having to suffer whatever manipulation has been deemed legally acceptable.