[epigramx]

US is the same country that allows a practical monopoly of NVIDIA on GPUs and Intel on CPU (or at least an oligopoly), and then pretend "foreigners are out to get us". It gets one to know one.

[Sammi]

This is a US policy for US citizens. Of course they are protecting their own. China does the same. No Facebook or Google allowed in China.

[ascorbic]

China is a totalitarian dictatorship. The US is the land of the free.

[bamboozled]

On the other hand, I find this a bit concerning too? The USA is starting to look a bit more like China. There is now only “one world view” for us. Given the friend group between the people who run X and Meta and it might leave us in a precarious situation?

Banning TikTok only treats the symptom , the real disease is that people are way to susceptible to propaganda and misinformation.

[dmix]

Dominant market leaders aren't inherently bad for the world. That's why anti-trust laws are narrow. Only when they are so ingrained and conspire to be anti-competitive (usually via lobbying gov policy to create barriers to entry) that they harm the ability for competition to replace them. NVIDIA constantly and perpetually have companies at their throats looking to take their market, which means they better deliver to customers.