Re: The whole thing is a mess
You raise some very good points and some stretching it a bit.
For starters, look at the demographics of TikTok, teenage wannabe media stars, is hardly the political hotpot. If they are worried about spying, then simply tell goverment staff and the military they can't install it.
The issue most have is this fake security theatre. If the goverments simply said, we are banning Huawei and TikTok until the Chinese goverment changes its rules on foreign companies operating in China, they would get a lot more sympathy.
As for human rights etc, well we (as in Goverments) can hardly moan at China whilst arming and supporting the same type of regiems in the middle east.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
