trying to steelman the tiktok ban: if US intelligence could prove it was being used as a propaganda tool and a way to increase mental instability, is it the role of government to protect its people be...
US intelligence agencies already said that the threats they identified with regard to TikTok were hypothetical. Of course, even hypothetical threats are good enough for politicians who already want to ban something. Either way, I have zero faith in the ability of our current elected officials to accurately identify propaganda, especially given that a concerning number of them seem to think the ongoing Donghua Jinlong joke is evidence of Chinese brainwashing.