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The govt isn't getting money from it?
The government can't control the narrative with it. Specifically the tipping point when they decided to ban it was when they realized people were free to call the genocide in Gaza a genocide without the US being able to overwhelm the platform with pro-Israel propaganda.
A government can control the narrative with TikTok, demonstrably.
Sorry, I meant the US government can't control the narrative on it.
They are, tho. TikTok still has to pay taxes.
But not on the data they harvest. Other platforms pay tax by selling the data rather than just harvesting it.
Google uses it to run ads. Facebook sold it to one of the listed countries back in 2016-ish and as a result in 2019 recieved the largest FTC in history at $5Bn and also faced similar cases in other countries, meaning they lost more money than they made doing that specific sale by far.
The US Government doesnt buy data, but they do sometimes request it via court orders and warrants.