TikTok banned?

Anyone with children will likely greet the news with a yawn.

Forget that the law President Biden recently passed doesn’t instantly “ban” the hugely popular app. (Instead, it threatens a ban if Chinese parent company ByteDance doesn’t sell off its American subsidiary within nine to twelve months — court challenges could extend that deadline by years.)

It’s not that parents don’t understand the danger of China using TikTok data to compromise national security, it’s that we’ve been warding off attacks by “foreign” agents for years.