•      "News and opinion distributed by Chinese propaganda organs are already available in the U.S. Google’s search engine happily points anyone to the English language website of the People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, which also has a Twitter and Facebook account. The Global Times newspaper, which is even more propagandistic than People’s Daily, is available on the web and has 1.8 million followers on Twitter. If this material is a threat on TikTok, why is it not also a threat on Twitter, Google, YouTube, and the open Web? Conversely, if the presence of Chinese propaganda on TikTok is so dangerous as to justify banning it, shouldn't advocates of a ban also push to ban Google searches for CCP materials, ban Twitter, and block all forms of Internet access to state-affiliated media from China?... Ironically, calls to ban… propaganda… lead inexorably to an American version of the Great Firewall of China: an Internet in which the government censors foreign information sources. If nationalistic fears about Chinese influence operations lead to a departure from American constitutional principles supporting free and open political discourse, we will have succeeded in undermining our system of government more effectively than any Chinese propaganda could do." Source: Internet Governance Project 

•      "The banning TikTok strategy also comes while the GOP simultaneously complains of liberal U.S. social media companies canceling and censoring conservatives. So, without a hint of irony, many of these same “conservatives” now agitate to ban a platform owned by an international group that includes several American investors. So, on the one hand, Republicans complain about censorship, while with the other hand, these same Republicans advocate to censor social media apps that they worry are influenced by the Chinese." Source: Sen. Rand Paul (Republican, Kentucky)