The TikTok ban is about US tech hegemony, not national security or protecting Americans’ data, which homegrown social media companies make a business of collecting and selling.
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A few years ago, a room full of techies — shorthand for white-collar tech employees, usually software engineers or computer programmers — gathered to organize their industry was unthinkable.
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