After US congressmen finished masturbating furiously in public en masse with blue and yellow Ukraine flags during a recent session, they signed and passed to Biden to sign the bill, apparently H.R. 231, to make distribution of the Tik Tok app illegal in the US market unless the company is divested from Chinese mainland ownership.

This is retarded and useless from several perspectives:

- If the ban were to take effect functionally, then the app can't appear in "play stores". However, the last version of that app will be around on devices that used the app. In Android you can run a common utility program that extracts an installed app into a ".APK" file. Which can be installed on any other device. Therefore, TikTok's app will hang around like a case of herpes for years after any ban until it just stops working with the main site. Also, you can always install an APK file on Android without recourse to the play store. Likely IOS has similar functions for Apple devices.

- Divestiture of TikTok from "Bytedance" is supposed to remove Chinese influence. However, even if this occurs, as long as any executives remain in the US subsidiary who are ethnic Chinese, then China can simply pressure them to follow orders from the CCP as always by leveraging threats on their families or their position within China. The CCP can gulag anyone it likes to force cooperation. So this is another layer of stupidity - the ban fails to address influence and frames it as only a legal corporate separation - really fucking Goddamned stupid.

The better way (steps):

- Force TikTok to invalidate all copies of their current privacy invading app installed on devices in the US. IE, make the US based apps no longer work with Tiktok. They could easily do so by changing the protocol for the app slightly from the server end.

- Simultaneously, rewrite their Tiktok app to remove privacy invading features. Use a clean room coding approach; and audit the code with a US based IT security team.

- The new TikTok app would be written to work with the new changed TikTok server protocols.

This approach

- makes the existing problematic Tik Tok app useless so most people will stop using it and will uninstall it. This avoids the software herpes issue we now face with orphaned TikTok apps.

- Puts a more trustable app in the hands of users.

- Removes reliance on Bytedance or Tiktok executives to conform, which is insane because as CCP influenced individuals they are inherently compromised and untrustworthy.

Two things people:

- Tell me why this can't work.

- Tell me why I am always the smartest person with a real solution to a problem that is overlooked by virtually everyone. I have not seen anyone publish an approach to the TikTok issue that has any level of reality to it.