They (either political wind that blows in) will use this as precedent and apply it to other businesses it sees as an ideological or technical "danger"
Other discussions:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40139681">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40139681</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40139794">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40139794</a>
Who in the US could realistically buy it? And how could ByteDance sell TikTok without selling its Chinese counterpart Douyin (that it shares its codebase with)?
TikTok is concerning. With it's data and algorithms it could be used as a very effective <i>tailored propaganda</i> machine in theory. Given that China is a communist dictatorship with a thing for propaganda, and where government is always involved with companies, I believe that this is mostly justified.
If they’re claiming the First Amendment, they’re saying they’re not just a passive facilitator of communication but communicating themselves, which seems to validate it as a state propaganda arm.