Come on, man. Don’t give credence to the US internment camps. There is a legitimate argument to be made that TikTok is funneling private US data to China, weakening natural security. There is no evidence to suggest that interning US Japanese in any way contributed to national security.
Grindr got sold off by the same reasoning and no one complained because it’s a legitimate concern.
How is the comment you are referring to giving "credence to the US internment camps"? It's using it as an example of how you can get away with whatever you want, including really terrible things like our internment camps or family separation for that matter, if you do it by EO and whisper "national security".
Because the TikTok national security concerns are plausible and the internment camp security concerns weren’t at all. One is plausible, if debatable. The other is a bald-faced conscious lie.
So your issue is with comparing the two of them? You believe that they are apples and oranges, one clearly bad and the other up for debate?
I will not pretend that we will look back on the TikTok debate and be appalled by it in the same degree but let's not forget that we considered internment camps to be "debatable" and Americans overwhelmingly supported them [0]. What we call "plausible, if debatable" now is not what future-us will necessarily call it. I think the original commenter was simply pointing out the extremes of the "power" behind using "national security" as justification.
Grindr got sold off by the same reasoning and no one complained because it’s a legitimate concern.