Comment by munchler

> The United States’ foreign foes easily can steal, scrape, or buy Americans’ data by countless other means.

True, but that's not the point.

> Shutting down communications platforms or forcing their reorganization based on concerns of foreign propaganda and anti-national manipulation is an eminently anti-democratic tactic, one that the US has previously condemned globally.

Sorry, that might've been true for old media, but social media is way more insidious.