Yes, of course we should ban TikTok - by Noah Smith

Cutting down on weaponized interdependence.

Biden and Congress are both attempting to do what Trump tried and failed to do: force TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app, to shut down its U.S. operations unless its parent company, ByteDance, sells it to a U.S. company. There are two reasons to do this, and neither one of them has anything to do with protecting American kids from developing short attention spans, or saving American companies from competition. The reasons are: TikTok sends data about its American users to the Chinese Communist Party, and TikTok is probably subject to Chinese-directed censorship that tries to nudge U.S.…

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