This thread is trying to have a serious conversation about the merits and dangers of the US banning TikTok. I don’t think it’s going to happen. There’s too much value for Trump to leave on the table. He’s a showman and he’s giving us, mainly gen-z, a show. On Monday he will “save” TikTok. He can ingratiate himself with a demographic that historically had not leaned conservative. It seems so obvious yet I see people trying to debate the ban as if it’s going to stay in place. It won’t.
Maybe. Or it could get worse.
We put communist sympathizers in jail in the past. We imprisoned 100k innocent Japanese US citizens in concentration camps.
Instead of rolling the ban back this could be the first event in a new kind of McCarthyism.
Be careful. Being seen as soft towards China could make you an enemy of the state soon, if it doesn’t already.