Majority of Americans Say TikTok Is a Threat to U.S. National Security

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Majority of Americans Say TikTok Is a Threat to U.S. National Security
variety.com

About 59% of Americans say TikTok a threat to the national security of the United States, according to a new survey of U.S. adults.

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But the average people don't matter? Does the government have a responsibility to protect civilian networks the same as they do the rest of our critical infrastructure? Does it matter that 44% of US phones have now become always-on sensors for the PLA? Look again at the headline. It is not asking about you, but about national security as a whole.

The United States may as well be a continent-wide fortress. It's not that citizen security doesn't matter so much as the threat to civilians is negligible.

The most dangerous goal of the CCP with TikTok is spreading anti-Western and anti-capitalist sentiment. Democracy will survive that just fine. The kids are OK.