None of which alters any of the other points that Nick made.

-Montana doesn't have the authority to pursue this as a trade issue or as a foreign espionage issue, because those are both constitutionally reserved Federal powers.

-The whole right-wing statist crusade against Tik Tok is absolutely a pretext for government restriction of other social media, and will absolutely be used as a stepping stone towards banning access to other social media apps and companies that one party or another doesn't like.

-The obsession with preventing China from gaining access to Americans' user data and personal information is extremely short-sighted for a number of reasons. #1: they already have it. #2: that is nowhere near as serious a concern as the fact that the US government is already compiling all of that data about its citizens and using it to monitor and politically persecute US citizens.

-The LGBT and Communist propaganda being pushed onto kids by TikTok is no more extreme or pervasive than the same propaganda being pushed onto kids by American social media companies.

App stores have banned social media apps before, Gab was kicked off both Apple and Google in 2018. How would this be any different?

Because that wasn't government legislation: it was at least tacitly a business decision made by private corporations. Yes, we all know that the tech giants were banning Gab and Parler at the behest of government intelligence agencies, and that is almost certainly unconstitutional, but it's still different from a legislature passing legislation that forces private companies to restrict access to a certain product, even if it's just the app. Nick is likely correct in his assessment that the lawsuit will be successful and this law will be overturned.

None of which alters any of the other points that Nick made.

-Montana doesn't have the authority to pursue this as a trade issue or as a foreign espionage issue, because those are both constitutionally reserved Federal powers.

-The whole right-wing statist crusade against Tik Tok is absolutely a pretext for government restriction of other social media, and will absolutely be used as a stepping stone towards banning access to other social media apps and companies that one party or another doesn't like.

-The obsession with preventing China from gaining access to Americans' user data and personal information is extremely short-sighted for a number of reasons. #1: they already have it. #2: that is nowhere near as serious a concern as the fact that the US government is already compiling all of that data about its citizens and using it to monitor and politically persecute US citizens.

App stores have banned social media apps before, Gab was kicked off both Apple and Google in 2018. How would this be any different?

-The LGBT and pro-communist propaganda being pushed onto kids by Tik Tok is no more egregious than the same propaganda being pushed onto kids by American social media companies.

Because that wasn't government legislation: it was at least tacitly a business decision made by private corporations. Yes, we all know that the tech giants were banning Gab and Parler at the behest of government intelligence agencies, and that is almost certainly unconstitutional, but it's still different from a legislature passing legislation that forces private companies to restrict access to a certain product, even if it's just the app. Nick is likely correct in his assessment that the lawsuit will be successful and this law will be overturned.