For the people who have advocated fruitlessly for years for the US to have any substantial data privacy law, it has to feel like gaslighting to see the country's national security apparatus finally focus on what TikTok collects and then conclude the answer is to ban that one app.

@kevincollier "the inverse tsa approach"

the regular tsa approach:

one guy tries a shoebomb: everyone has to take off their shoes

one guy tries a laptop bomb: now everyone has to take their laptops out

it's inverse:
every company steals data, spies on users, treats people like cattle - but only one of them, the most popular by far, gets banned.

its like they forgot about faceapp, meitu, ingress, pokemon go, life360 and the cadre of others