With threats of a U.S. ban growing, China-based TikTok is going out of its way to placate U.S. lawmakers. That TikTok has been reduced to this is sad commentary about politics in the United States. Protectionism quite simply never elevates those who practice it, and the political efforts to cut TikTok off at the knees are protectionism, plain and simple.
Indeed, it’s no reach to say that absent TikTok successfully offering Americans what they want, its existence in the U.S. would not remotely be in question. TikTok’s “error” was in discovering a wildly unmet need in the marketplace, only to meet it. At present Americans spend far more time on TikTok than they do on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and others. This speaks to progress, including progress for the U.S.
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