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WaPo: Federal and state governments alike are banning TikTok. Some bans stop employees from downloading the app on state devices, and others ban accessing TikTok on government internet networks

The National Review Ed Board said state TikTok bans aren’t going far enough: TikTok has deep connections with the Chinese Communist Party. TikTok should be banned from the U.S. entirely!

A Fox News Op agrees: Privacy concerns aside, the “digital fentanyl” is bad for kids’ mental health. Officials need to ban TikTok from operating in the U.S

The Federalist: TikTok poses a serious threat to national security -- the app’s giving Beijing access to a huge amount of user data. Google and Apple should take it off their app stores

Jdsupra: A complete TikTok ban would be hard to accomplish. Even just taking it off Google and Apple’s app store wouldn’t prevent people from jailbreaking their phones and downloading the app

CNN Op: TikTok’s a part of internet culture now. It would be really hard to outright ban it. People just use and love it too much

And Fast Company said we can’t put the genie back in the bottle: TikTok might’ve championed the algorithmic “FYP” page, but other apps have since embraced the format

A WaPo Op: Sure, a complete ban on TikTok isn’t likely. But the government bans are pointless. They just ban TikTok from government devices -- that doesn’t do much to protect Americans

Wired agreed: The state bans are a bad idea. Educators in states that banned TikTok aren’t able to research the platform or teach their students about it

NPR said the danger’s not real, anyway: Bytedance employees in China ≠ the Chinese government. Even if the claims of employees accessing user data are true, it’s not a national security threat

But an MSNBC Op had a different take: The danger *is* real, but the TikTok bans miss the point. Foreign governments have manipulated other social media sites -- the problem is bigger than just China and TikTok