They only want to threaten to ban it because they want to censor and control it more like they do with all other big tech companies. Prob hard for them to convince the Chinese government to hire Feds to do “content moderation” and install backdoors. The twitter files is evidence to how infiltrated the us intelligence apparatus wants to be in any centralized social media platform.

Also, in a failing economy how many jobs would be eliminated if they banned an app like TikTok? I don’t mean just for the people who work there but all the people who make a living posting content on there. It’s not like wiping out some random thing, people make a living on there now.

Decentralized is the only way to go in the future, censorship resistant platforms like Nostr is the only way to communicate globally without oligarchs trying to control the message.