It's probably worse than most derailments but it was being pushed as a disaster on par with Chernobyl, it was overblown, again whether or not it was intentional TikTok had a narrative about how disastrous it was, some people got sick but no one has even died form this, it was badly exaggerated

Yeah, if it was something really bad the US government would have been busy covering it up, I hear derailments are usual so this one isn't special other than because people were panicking.

And TikTok definitely pushed the narrative of a disaster that would poison everyone on the area will the government clearly say that it wasn't that bad and didn't pose a threat for anyone's health.

Why not? I mean either that or buying the Chinese companies so China can't extract benefits from the Market and yeah there's market protectionism in play here too, it's obvious like most apps copied the format of TikTok, and once it's gone they will have the market to themselves but I genuinely believe there's national security concerns over this, TikTok just pushed to the mainstream the East Palestine derailment, that was a nothing burger, so I think it's a perfect example of how it can actually manufacture a certain narrative, whether it was intentional or not doesn't matter, the fact that the US government can't intervene on it to regulate discourse there is bad enough to warrant a ban.

I wonder if, after the US bans TikTok (and for the looks of it they will, since both parties agree on this!), other nations will finally adhere to the Chinese method of handling online spaces as another "national border" that needs to be guarded, it looks like we all agree that this is the logical step of any sovereign nation. Maybe not banning foreign apps, like the US and China will, but maybe storing all the data locally is something that all nations will be interested on doing. Or maybe not and it will be limited to banning Chinese shit and nothing else, US aligned countries should follow suit in regards to TikTok but not really care about US apps.

Whatever something that I genuinely believe will happen is blocking any Chinese made app for entering the US led countries, allowing TikTok was clearly a mistake so I doubt they will let something like that to happen ever again.