“Congress Didn’t Ban TikTok.” That’s the title of Mike Gallagher’s latest column in the Wall Street Journal. The former congressman from Wisconsin is correct that Congress didn’t ban TikTok, it’s doing much worse: Congress is attempting a taking of TikTok.
How we know the above to be true can be found in Gallagher’s column. He writes that “through TikTok, China can gain access to detailed data on hundreds of millions of American users.” Which is true, but it’s also true that the latter won’t change one iota assuming a sale of TikTok “to an owner that isn’t connected to a foreign adversary.”
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