Or, in Southern California, save pictures from the wetter winter/early spring months so that the landscaping is green instead of brown

I'll give you a plausible but hypothetical example of why I'm more worried about domestic mass surveillance than foreign mass surveillance. Let's say a person named Alice is involved in BLM, and though she does nothing illegal, she becomes a thorn in the side of the local chapter of the Proud Boys. Bob, policeman who is also a member of this Proud Boys group, happens to have an old high school friend, Candice, who now works in information technology for a federal law enforcement agency. Bob, pretending to be acting in his capacity as a law enforcement officer, pressures Candice into abusing her access to social media surveillance data to share information about Alice, and Bob uses that data to track down Alice in an isolated location and break her kneecaps.... Foreign mass surveillance is generally much less tightly coupled with regular people in the US, and while something like this story could happen, it'd pretty much have to involve foreign agents (spies) who are much fewer in number than far-right policemen.

So they do the same things Google, Facebook, and the rest do. But people complain more about TikTok because maybe the data goes to the commies instead of whoever you think ought to be tracking you.

Yeah, I don't like the way the CCP does things either, but since I live in the US I'm a lot more worried about how the US government does things. Apart from potential misinformation, it's hard to see how your list of things is relevant to TikTok.

I asked for an explanation of why it's ok for the US government to do these things. You brought up national security, which you then established isn't relevant to my question. Thank you.

It's not a "national security threat", true, but it is a threat to the rights and freedoms that are the foundation of what America stands for. I think it's even more pernicious TBH

I'd like the people who are against TikTok for these reasons to explain why it's ok for the US government to do those things

Or maybe a chart comparing the average age of registered voters vs. senators