I'm a US citizen, not being paid by China, and I've never used TikTok, but I think this ban is bad. I believe Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are bigger threats to the people that live in the US than China is. This ban gives them more power by eliminating one of their largest competitors. That's bad.
The solution is not to allow TikTok but to reduce the influence of social media in the first place.
As exposed by whistleblower Frances Haugen, Facebook's algorithms favored content that generated anger and division, which in turn increased user engagement. Facebook now wants to return to that algorithm.
Agreed. I would be all in favor of a law that applied to Tiktok, Facebook, X, and all others equally. Singling out Tiktok is just a transparent handout to the US's tech oligarchs, which is worse than doing nothing.