Yes, TikTok sucks. But the rules for tech giants must be better than ‘it’s only bad if China does it’

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What year is it? All this talk of a TikTok ban makes it feel like 2020 again. But this time it might eventuate. Last week the US House of Representatives passed a bill that would require TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell to a US company or face a national “ban”. Time will tell if it will pass the Senate, but this is the closest the US has come to a national ban since Donal Trump floated the idea four years ago. More broadly than TikTok, the bill would allow the US president to designate non-US social media apps...