Comment by pbiggar

The claim that this is is about national security is absurd. It's about Palestine, and Blinken and Romney admitted as much.

https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2024/05/06/senato...

> Romney replied, "Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially TikTok or other entities of that nature. If you look at the postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians, relative to other social media sites — it's overwhelmingly so among TikTok broadcasts."