Converation thread

TikTok not owned by the Chinese government at all. This is a scam, and banning it is an attack on free speech and private property. If Congress actually cared about combating China, they'd shoot down the spy balloons, ban Chinese purchase of American property and seal up the border that Chinese nationals and Chinese-funded drug cartels are invading. Instead they choose to focus on an app that is privately-owned because it's a "national security threat" more than all that. This creates a dangerous precedent – banning apps accused of being foreign-owned. They will come after X (formerly twitter) next, claiming Elon Musk is a Russian asset because he allows free speech for isolationists like me who oppose the war in Ukraine.