Tolerance shouldn’t tolerate intolerance.

Why is this downvoted? This is a well known philosophical problem with a known solution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Give me a break... what, you'd rather just let said totalitarian government pump their propaganda into the US? This is a great example of following your moral principles right off the cliff.

What makes you think the propaganda won't be pumped in if the US app is sold to a different company?

If it's sold to a US company then it will be our intelligence agencies pumping the propaganda, not theirs. Which is an outcome I'm more amenable to, considering that our intelligence agencies generally have more of an interest in the stability of American society than the intelligence agencies of China.

See also - Facebook is American owned, yet that never stopped assertions that it was used by foreign adversaries to pump their propaganda.

So if it's propaganda either way, then no loss will happen?

Ownership restrictions on media companies generally are commonplace throughout the developed world.

Being common doesn't make them a good idea.

That's true, it just makes them common. This is a good idea on its own merits.

Exactly. Leadership isn't following with tit-for-tat pettiness.

What would be US leadership would similar to what Ro Khanna is saying with data and personal information privacy standards like a nationwide US GDPR but with the teeth of something like HIPAA. Data brokers should be put out of business.

Because we don't want to look like pushovers and wimps who won't push back against a bully who is eating our lunch.

> Personally I don’t think ‘totalitarian government does it, so should we’ is a super compelling reason.

How about “make economic power and one of our main competitors” does it? Just because China is a totalitarian government didn’t mean they can do the “right” thing.