Comment Although difficult to care much.... (Score 2) 90
I never really understood the fixation on banning TikTok, while SO many other products and services Americans use daily come out of China and even collect info in data centers under their control?
The most popular drones people fly are made by DJI, a Chinese company. The Roborock robot vacuum cleaners are made in China and stay signed in to a cloud server that keeps maps of the rooms of your house stored on it, and can even store images from the vacuum's camera to help it avoid certain types of furniture. Bambu Labs is making the most popular 3D printer on the market right now, and they're owned by some engineers in China who came from DJI. All their printers are cloud connected, too.
I think TikTok is ultimately pretty useless. Just one more place to throw poorly made videos, to pretend you're more important than you are.
But it's hard to see how their site poses a security risk to the nation any worse than other social media platforms.