<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>II2II</author><text>You do realize that this would effectively ban American apps outside of the US? I live in a country that is quite cozy with the US, yet our governments usually have to reject American software since there is no protection for our citizens. Now imagine that applied to the population as a whole.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AlbertCory</author><text>Ah, it&amp;#x27;s the old slippery-slope argument again.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m fine with banning all apps from countries that require their app-makers to share data with the government. If that requires an international treaty to codify when a company must share data (e.g. only with a criminal warrant), then great, let&amp;#x27;s do that.&lt;p&gt;China would refuse to sign that treaty? Even better.</text></item><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>Because China is not a good example to follow. It is a dystopian state with full control of what their citizens have access to. Why would you want to have your government to choose the apps for you?</text></item><item><author>philjohn</author><text>US Tech firms products are largely banned in China, closing off a market of 1bn+ - why should Chinese firms have unfettered access to the US?</text></item><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>Why not regulate how the data is used or stored, like the EU does, but ban?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m really hoping this doesn&amp;#x27;t become a reality because if it does, we will end up with partitioned internet and stagnation.&lt;p&gt;People often forget that the US companies are foreign entity for most of the worlds population and with the WikiLeaks revelations we know for a fact that the US government has access to the data of American tech companies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok</title><url>https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2022/12/rubio-gallagher-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-ban-tiktok</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mentat</author><text>You don&amp;#x27;t think the US government requires information sharing?</text><parent_chain><item><author>AlbertCory</author><text>Ah, it&amp;#x27;s the old slippery-slope argument again.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m fine with banning all apps from countries that require their app-makers to share data with the government. If that requires an international treaty to codify when a company must share data (e.g. only with a criminal warrant), then great, let&amp;#x27;s do that.&lt;p&gt;China would refuse to sign that treaty? Even better.</text></item><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>Because China is not a good example to follow. It is a dystopian state with full control of what their citizens have access to. Why would you want to have your government to choose the apps for you?</text></item><item><author>philjohn</author><text>US Tech firms products are largely banned in China, closing off a market of 1bn+ - why should Chinese firms have unfettered access to the US?</text></item><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>Why not regulate how the data is used or stored, like the EU does, but ban?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m really hoping this doesn&amp;#x27;t become a reality because if it does, we will end up with partitioned internet and stagnation.&lt;p&gt;People often forget that the US companies are foreign entity for most of the worlds population and with the WikiLeaks revelations we know for a fact that the US government has access to the data of American tech companies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok</title><url>https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2022/12/rubio-gallagher-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-ban-tiktok</url></story>