Not possible. All apps are as pure as the driven snow except that evil bastard TikTok. TikTok should be beaten like a red-headed step-child, and banned like liquor in a baptist church. As long as it's American owned, I don't care if an app is selling our data all over the world to foreign adversaries, or even colluding with the US gov't for political based prosecutions. That's all fine.
But, TikTok deserves irrational fear and selective outrage because…some people said so.
See, those Nazi's in India banned over 100 Chinese apps to protect their population, and that's real discrimination.
Singling out one successful app to force its sale to a US company is totally an example of American Exceptionalism, and evidence of our superior way of life.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/08/06/india-bans-more-chinese-smartphone-apps/
India banned an uncertain number of Chinese smartphone apps Tuesday, adding to the 59 banned at the end of June and 47 more, mostly clones and alternate versions of the original 59, in July.
One of the newly blacklisted apps is Mi Browser Pro, another version of a popular web browser that was preinstalled on many Chinese phones sold in India until the “Boycott China” initiative began.
Both banned versions of Mi Browser are products of the Chinese company Xiaomi, which said this week it was “working towards understanding the development” and would “adhere to all data privacy and security requirements under the Indian law.”
Voice of America News (VOA) noted that fully banning the Mi Browser could potentially halt the sale of Xiaomi smartphones, and others that normally preinstall the app, unless the phone makers agree to stop installing it on phones sold in India.
The updated blacklist includes browser plugins from Chinese mega-corporation Baidu, video editing tools, email services, and possibly the popular Chinese social media platform Weibo — effectively a substitute for Twitter, which China has banned citizens from using. IndiaTV quoted reports on Thursday that said the Weibo app does not appear on software download sites in India, including the Google Play Store.
The earlier rounds of Indian software bans included TikTok, the video microblogging platform that faces a possible ban in the United States unless ownership of the program passes from its Chinese creators to Microsoft.