Imagine if a country passed a law saying Facebook or Google had to sell to a non-US owner or it would be banned. The ban isn’t because TikTok is a threat to US privacy or whatever, but because it threatens the global market share of US tech and by extension the geopolitical power of the US state. https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-ban-house-vote-china-national-security-8fa7258fae1a4902d344c9d978d58a37 #tech #tiktok #politics #socialmedia