'''Conservative Defense of TikTok''' against the proposed ban or forced sale of [[TikTok]] by President [[Biden]], a candidate for the [[United States presidential election, 2024|president in 2024]], include the following:
#TikTok, according to its CEO, is used by roughly half of the U.S. population, and the "bipartisan" show trial is nothing short of a statist, anti-democratic power grab antithetical to freedom of conscience and individual liberty.<ref>Lee, Carol E. (March 19, 2023). [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/tiktok-now-150-million-active-users-us-ceo-tell-congress-rcna75607 TikTok now has 150 million active users in the U.S., CEO to tell Congress]. ''NBC News''. Retrieved March 26, 2023.</ref> Blaming the platform for excessive harmful content created by a minority of its users, as is the argument employed by numerous U.S. representatives, is grounded in as little sense as advocating the shutdown of Coca-Cola for incidents of diabetes.
#The timing of [[Biden]]'s 180-degree shift to seek to ban TikTok, after initially courting it, suggests that [[Dem]]s see an erosion of their control of young voters due to TikTok.<ref>https://slate.com/technology/2023/03/biden-tiktok-sale-china.html</ref>
#TikTok is free of the [[liberal censorship]] imposed by [[Facebook]], [[Google]], and other [[Silicon Valley]] [[Big Tech]] to tilt elections to [[Dems]].