Dude has an anti-China boner. Mind you, I agree that their gov spying on us through Tiktok is a problem. He'd still rather focus on an app. 150,000 dead Americans seems to have slipped his mind.
Please don't post generic political comments to HN. They lead to generic political discussion, which is repetitive (and therefore tedious), and usually turns into a nasty flamewar.
From other stuff I've read, it sounds like the objection is not just spying, but also that the owners can inject whatever content they want into any user's feed using the interest clustering they've doubtless built to feed the propaganda most effective for that person, and the potential that if they're at the mercy of the Chinese govt, that the government could control that injection. Unlike Facebook, etc, there's no expectation that what you're seeing is coming from people in your social circle.
That still isn't a reason to ban the app until there is evidence that such a thing has been done. In other words, punishing the crime before it is committed seems unjust.
