The US should simply mirror the types of controls placed on US-companies by the CCP, force them to promote anti-Chinese/pro-US content and censor pro-China/anti-US content, as well as to curb the reach of content discussing divisive/controversial topics that pit Americans against each other.
If they decide to close shop after that you would achieve the same goal while publicly demonstrating what their true motives have always been.
Tiktok doesn't operate in a vacuum. They have US advertisers and pay US content creators. You can very well impose drastic fines and make it very difficult to make any money in the US if they violate privacy laws. You also have Google and Apple that are US based and have to ability to audit these apps.
I don't think privacy is the main concern, it's what kind of content is being pushed/censored, but even if it were even drastic fines are probably not enough to dissuade privacy violations if the CCP decides it wants the data. Plus, how are you ever going to even find out in the first place?
Who better than the US government to understand how social media can be used to manipulate the masses to support a specific agenda. Or maybe we're different :)
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