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
Surely it just is gas lighting? My guees is that this is driven by data protectionism and all the national security stuff is BS sold to politicians by lobbyists.

The big data miners don't like competition, especially when they are banned in China.