To recap:

Situation:

Ownership of TikTok is irrelevant. As long as there is any DNA of Chinese ownership or management I assume that Winnie the Pooh can get your data.

The security damage from TikTok is that its mobile app (used universally to access it) is a piece of spyware.

My recommended solution:

Force a replacement of the mobile app with a security audited "safe" app that does the same functional things (take and view videos, but without CCP spying on people's internal data.

Sunset the current app by making it useless, through a protocol change (I mean change the messages that the server sends to the app.)

If you did this, the old spyware TikTok app will basically evaporate from people's devices in favor of the safer reverse engineered app.

Congress isn't smart enough to understand an approach like this. They prefer non technical meat axe terminology such as ban, prohibit, law, legislate, force, deny.

I think Congress is retarded because legal remedies are not effective when the CCP basically doesn't follow any rule of law.