Dude, they're not getting it. Just let them live in their bubble.

The argument being a US-owned social media application, which still does all of these things, is better than one belonging to an alien company by sheer virtue of the sole fact that it's American?

Sounds like 19th Century American foreign policy.

Besides, there are US alternatives already. YouTube shorts, Instagram reels, no one is flocking to those outlets now even though they are, surprise, functionally identical. The free market the US has cultivated has chosen, and it's chosen TikTok.

You sound like a US congressman.

Beep boop. No, I am human. Please don't make me solve a CAPTCHA.

So simple, yet so beautiful in its execution.

It's not a bespoke trip set up for this single turtle. The Irish Navy will have ships out on exercises, aid missions and other deployments as part of their regular draft.

In this case, they'd just be taking an extra passenger along to somewhere they're likely already going to be in proximity of.

You've got a name, you're still just some person.

Presumably OP is not in a customer facing or B2B position. For many others, however, this blanket approach is going to have a lot of false positives and missed genuine communication.