My local dispensary had "write your congressman to support legal weed." Is that a threat? Or is it just encouraging people who use your app to participate in politics? It's not like they're encouraging their users to march on Washington or commit violence. They're just telling folks to do what every civics teacher has told them: Write your congressman about things you care about.

If Congress takes that as a threat that says a lot more about Congress than it does about Tik Tok.

There’s a reason western apps are banned in China. Why should a Chinese company not expect action in the west?

I thought that reason was because we post about events that didn't happen and countries that don't exist, not that it was a threat to China's government. We didn't ban apps here because we're the free good guys, and they're the authoritarians.

But I guess both countries are dickweeds now. So it goes...