are you even taking this seriously? did you not even comprehend what I said or are you just blindly responding hoping for a “gotcha”?

That aint a "gotya", that's proof it has nothing to do with preventing foreign interests from influencing anything. Because we have a foreign interest influencing it already: Musk.

not obvious, and just because you say it with more conviction doesn’t make it true.

So, we have other large social media networks, that are rife with foreign influence, that already influence the US's internal politics... But yet, banning tiktok was to prevent it from happening?

Its either true, or its not. And in this case, its not true. The sole reason was to keep China specifically, and it only arose because people in the US were learning about shit that US supports. Which the US doesn't want.

by that logic, then you’re just as guilty for allowing them to do nothing. so what gives you the right to complaint about it if you haven’t done anything to stop them?

Except, they're not trying to stop foreign influence. They are trying to stop one country, and they only took notice because of news that is damning to the US.

there are so many reasons why but you’re just too emotional and inexperienced to see them, but I’ll point out a couple just so you can see how absurd you’re being.

And... with all your excuses... How come nothing is being done still? Its not new that Elon is a fascist. And it's not new that Elon is in bed with several foreign interests that are hostile to the US... In fact, its at least 6 years old news at this point.

But tiktok. home of the Pro-Palestinian content is what is being gone after now. Not the Fascists running Twitter, or Facebook... Wonder why that is? Could it be their political donations?