The post was obviously downvoted for being unsubstantive and flamebait, which is against the site guidelines. Your comment also broke multiple guidelines: the one against insinuations of astroturfing/shilling/spying, and the one against going on about downvotes. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.

I gave it a down vote as it was presented as a glib one liner. If they presented it with reasonable logic and discussion I wouldn't have.

At least for me it was the delivery combined with the HN environment were I hope we can keep this forum based around value-add conversation and not hivemind one liners, regardless of their correctness.

There may be legitimate security issues with TikTok, but that's not really something that is believable coming from Trump or Republicans who are willing to outright contradict their intelligence agencies on Russia and election security and refuse any funding for additional security. Actual national security issues don't seem to concern this administration very much, but Trump has a solid track record of being exactly this petty.

I've wondered if this has all been because TikTok influencers famously tricked team Trump into thinking they had a full stadium for a rally that turned out to be humiliatingly empty.

But this seems overly petty for even Trump, it's just bizarre.

> But this seems overly petty for even Trump,

Nothing is overly petty for him.

I'm fascinated by these downvotes. Is HN super pro-Trump, or are we just dealing with raging cases of "rationalist" enlightened centrism?

American politicians have been worried about TikTok since long before that incident, and it's not just Trump-aligned people with concerns.