That is kind of obvious. It’s a well known fact that all Chinese companies after certain size/reach are controlled by the Chinese government

True, but it doesn't seem widely appreciated.

But that's, imo, not a reason to ban it. When it comes to media, yes curated media like magazines, journals, newspapers, and social media, Americans have the right to consume whatever media they want (minus exceptions like CSAM). If Americans want to watch hours of CCP-edited brainrot scrolly videos, that's 100% our right. We were never supposed to be a country like China or India who bans websites just because they don't like them and because they think people are too stupid to surf the web on their own.

It's not banned, they're forcing the Chinese to divest ownership & control of it, same as China does to US companies, really. The fact is that they'd rather shut it down than be unable to gather location data or build social graphs of their user base.

Frankly the propaganda aspect is the least troubling part of it because you're right, people can make their own choices about information sources.

But figuring out who various military members are connected to, where and how they're moving around, and especially any leaks where people take cell phones in places they shouldn't (remember that ship that installed a Starlink illegally?), they can get quite a bit of intelligence.

If the don't divest ownership, then what? (The ban)

Sure, but it kinda shows that their priorities are something other than money.

So what? That doesn't make banning media in the US okay