150 million Americans have given TikTok near-monopolistic powers over US's entire web based industry. Just like how Google used their search engine to promote their own services and branch out into many different products, now Bytedance holds equivalent if even greater power:
Instagram rival Lemon8 hits the US App Store’s Top 10
Prior to yesterday, the Lemon8 app had never before ranked in the Top 200 Overall Charts in the U.S.- ahead of YouTube, WhatsApp, Gmail and Facebook.
A single day of ads, promoted to all 150 million US users- that's all it takes ByteDance to place yet another record breaking app in the Top 10. TikTok isn't just an entertainment app, it is a beachhead for all Chinese and international apps into the US ecosystem. And US tech can't seal the crack or stop the flooding. Eight more days and all the Top 10 apps will be ByteDance owned.
RESTRICT act will take care of it. Don’t worry.