The United States is within its rights to demand the divestiture of TikTok to an entity separate from the Chinese Communist Party if evidence shows data sharing.

“look if it's true that Tik Tok is sharing data with the CCP then I think the United States is well within rights to either ban it or cause it to be divested and I personally like the divesture option I mean that's what Trump was suggesting during his term”

TikTok is a security risk due to its potential for foreign surveillance and state-directed censorship, necessitating its divestiture or a total ban.

“I think this is um a security risk. I've made that clear here before, and I don't think we would ever allow Iran, North Korea Russia to run any of these companies inside of America, nor would they allow us to run Facebook, X, etc. in their countries.”

TikTok should be divested to prevent a foreign power from controlling a platform that serves as a powerful influence tool in American society.

“This thing is far too powerful for the CCP to have any kind of access to it for the Chinese government to have any kind of access to it it has to be divested”

He supports the national security concerns regarding TikTok, given its connection to a foreign adversary and its influence on American users.

“Like for instance, when we talk about TikTok, it's kind of funny that people think it's unfathomable that a foreign adversary literally having connections to so many different American cell phones and having their thumb on social media, which we all know is incredibly like influential and important.”

The US should ban TikTok to protect the minds of the youth from negative influence and algorithmic manipulation.

“it's more than anything else for you to destroy the minds of the youth is the way you destroy the future of a country so it's I and that that's that's the number one it's not even close so beyond National Security it's shaping and influencing public opin rotting the minds of the kids”

Ethan claims that banning TikTok is an overreach and it is wrong to completely remove a platform from the public.

“It's important to give people their due diligence before completely banning them because right right you know it's important that we uh say it like it is.”

Targeting TikTok exclusively is unfair given that many American corporations also collect massive amounts of data from consumers.

“several commentators have criticized singling out Tick Tock when the majority of American corporations collect massive amounts of data from American consumers and the American government has repeatedly been caught buying that information from them”

The push to ban TikTok is motivated by commercial competitors wanting market share and a desire to control a media outlet that cannot be censored as easily as Western platforms.

“Mark Zuckerberg and obviously Google for example absolutely want to eviscerate Tik Tok because they want to be Tik Tok they see every moment that people are spending on Tik Tok is a moment they could be spending on YouTube shorts or Instagram reals”

She argues that the TikTok ban is an attack on individuals who use the platform for their livelihood and that arguments regarding surveillance are hypocritical given widespread data practices elsewher

“Tik Tok is basically a mall at this point right where women do their um you know I mean it's a mall like you know how how you go to the mall I used to do this at Bloomingdales hold perfume do you want to try the perfume do you want to try the perfume that's this now”

She opposes a government ban on TikTok because she believes it sets a negative precedent for government control of information.

“I just don't believe in banning Tik Tok. I just don't think”