mean, are they really sort of flooding dc with influencers right, so tiktok has really sort of been positioning itself as almost too big to ban at this point in the u. s you know, as you mentioned earlier, it has 150 million american users. it has five million businesses that use the app every day to reach customers. um and it also has a lot of sort of creators and small businesses that really, you know, rely on the up for their livelihood, and they re really sort of, you know, emphasizing that element, and they did fly a few creators out to d c to sort of appeal to lawmakers directly and, you know, say, what would what? what they would lose at this app were taken away from that. so what are the stakes here? i mean, for the company you ve got, some lawmakers are pushing for it to be banned outright or sold to a u. s parent. um and you have national security people. i mean, it s not allowed. you heard john kirby say there from the pentagon. it s not allowed on us military members phones
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