(9) TikTok is bad for kids. Fraught subject, but irrelevant to this bill. The goal of the bill is to *keep* TikTok but have it divest. It takes no stance on the impact of any social media. If banned, another similar site could just step in. [15/15] Anything else?

[8 cont.] If we had a law which set data handling/storage requirements for all platforms (see #2), we could address the problem before it had a chance to become a major economic force. [14/15]

(8) The economic arguments. Huge number of people in the US who make a living through TikTok, or who use TikTok as an essential channel for communicating about their business. Important, but the problem is we're legislating a specific platform after it became huge. [13/15]

(7) Not enough evidence of a problem. Near the end of the list only because this bill would be problematic regardless. It's about who handles data, not what's done with it, & only applies to specific companies in specific places at the discretion of the executive branch. [12/15]

(6) Related to 5: free speech arguments - that it restricts TikTok's speech and a vast swath of legal speech by users of the app. The implications here are the hardest for me to fully understand/summarize. Follow @evelyndouek.bsky.social ACLU, EFF, google "Berman Amendments," etc. [11/15]

(5) Enforcement is primarily through Google/Apple, not TikTok. Telling an American business it can't host specific [speech/software] is messy stuff, and if it stands it'll be litigated forever and probably won't survive [*non-lawyer making legal predictions - plz ignore] [10/15]

(4) It's just politically foolish for democrats, who don't need additional reasons for young people to resent them. [9/15]

[3 cont.] AFAIK It would just take the Secretary of State naming another country as a foreign adversary for the president to ban e.g. Telegram (based in Dubai). Can you think of a president who might ban sources of information he doesn't like? [8/15]

(3) Slippery slope/breadth arguments: it would create a precedent/tool for govt picking & choosing which apps/websites to allow Americans to use & concentrates that power in the executive branch. It could already apply to e.g. Genshin Impact, PUBG Mobile, and VK. [7/15]

[2 cont.] Not just for foreign adversaries, not just specific companies within those foreign adversaries that the president doesn't like, but all companies. PADA even sounds better than PAFACAA. [6/15]