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They don’t care about kids dancing, they care that the platform allows people to be critical of the government and the right-wing rhetoric that is so pervasive in the American platforms doesn’t really exist on TikTok. You could call that due to Chinese influence or due to the community rejecting it but either way, the American government has been moving right for decades and does t like getting called out on it.
On the other hand I get the governments concern that a foreign adversary has access to so much data on American citizens and could have undue influence on American culture by adjusting the algorithms and making their own targeted content that looks benign and natural