> I do not believe even a casual observer can uniformly answer “no” to the following; The only one I wouldn't uniformly answer "no" to is the last one as there

> I do not believe even a casual observer can uniformly answer “no” to the following; The only one I wouldn't uniformly answer "no" to is the last one as there's no real evidence for the first two and that one is at least in principle possible but what's important is that private American citizens running entertainment apps on their personal phones isn't a "national security issue". Running TikTok on government phones in Langley probably is so banning an app like this from government devices is fair enough, but the interest of any individual American is that they have free access to services, domestic or foreign, even if it's literal propaganda because they're the ones who are supposed to make that judgement. Hell even if it's Red Star OS from North Korea and they want to run it on their personal computer, they should be able to. American interest isn't a synonym for interest of the state department, because if that's the case you're living in a security state (ironically like China) and not a free country.