I keep seeing this stated as a reason for banning tt but I've yet to see any evidence. During the supreme courts oral argument last week they referred to a sealed appendix with more info, when they were passing the legislation they also referred to secret evidence that Americans can't see. I don't want to give in to conspiratorial thinking but if its as bad as they claim then we as the public have a right to see the evidence and decide for ourselves.
If you catch someone planting bombs under all your bridges, you don’t need evidence that they’ve detonated any to take them down.
I laid out in another comment how this works, but the gist of it is that the CCP can use the populace as dumb actors to achieve their goals.
China has secret agents they need to move through an area. Why not have an asian hate awareness rally in that area at the same time?
Nobody attending that rally would have any idea they are acting as decoy agents. None would report seeing CCP propaganda on tiktok.
Here's a study showing TikTok tilts toward positive views on CCP and away from negative ones, unlike trends on other socials.
https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/Peer-Reviewed...
Think of it this way:
"TikTok would rather shut itself off from the U.S. market than divest its ownership from the CCP.
That is not the action of a rational corporation and really tells you who calls the shots at TikTok."
Evidence as to CCP control? Or evidence to another thing?
Because something that is very important to understand about China, or any other totalitarian regime, is that the people in charge don't let something like TikTok happen without having a fairly good grip on the people running it. That's just authoritarianism 101.