Good riddance. I hope the EU follows suit and soon. Von der Leyen has indicated that this is on the table:

politico.eu/…/tiktok-ban-in-eu-is-not-excluded-vo…

In case people still think it’s just another social media app and that it’s only being banned, because “China bad”:

www.nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-tiktok-vm-1

I have only ever seen this kind of obfuscation with malware before. This fits unconfirmed (but credible) reports that ByteDance will not permit any non-Chinese employees to even look at the backend in their foreign offices and instead fly in experts from China. That’s not normal.