Are you serious? TikTok is a hotbed of woke antisemetic and pro-Palestine pro-Hamas bullshit. The Jewish lobbies wanted that shut down, period. They don't want the differing voices heard.

This was a bipartisan agreement, exactly like the Patriot Act.

The fuckwits in congress from both parties couldn't care less about child exploitation or people's financial data being hacked. National security was a distantly secondary motive because a bill has floated around with no definitive support for over a year.