US-made missiles are blowing stuff up inside Russia because Russia invaded a treaty partner who gave up their nukes in exchange for a security alliance with the US. And yet Russian apps are in our app stores. Nobody needs to imagine.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but everyone has different interests from everyone else. That's not a sufficient reason.

Wouldn't banning the collection of this confidential data provide a better solution? Meta could still turnaround and sell this information to Chinese companies.

> China has different interests than the US

Define the US here. Is it the government, the people, the business interests of the private sector?

Each one of those has different interests, often competing ones.

In any functional nation the people's interests should prevail, and it seems to me that any information capable of swaying the public's opinion is informing them that their interests are being harmed in favor of other ones.

Crazy take, More likely the US or it's allies goes to war and they try to play up sympathy with the target.

Nobody wants China to take Taiwan, that's not something its possible to convince people of

Then China would just fall back to bombarding them with propaganda on one of the other large social media platforms that are prone to both known and unknown influence.

Aka because we're the "good" guys