My issue is that it doesn't go far enough. All they want to do is remove it from the app store, which is just a worthless concession to the nationalist movement. Not only should we ban properly TikTok, but we should ban every Chinese app as well — and seize China's shares in American companies. Furthermore, let's ban all companies, domestic and foreign, from spying on Americans and treat websites and apps that censor information as publishers.

The recession and pandemic aren't good reasons to let China, whose mismanagement and lies lead to this situation becoming much worse than it had to be, spy on American citizens and brainwash our youth. The CCP is using TikTok to spread propaganda, and allowing them to do this will lead to one thing — communist revolution (something the comments section seems quite keen on achieving), which will multiply the economic crisis several times. The average person is much worse off after a socialist revolution than before.

An economic note: the recession hasn't lasted long enough to be considered a depression, which is usually defined as lasting at least three or four years, although it is definitely severe enough.