Congress Should Force China to Sell TikTok

Last Thursday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee met to consider a bill that would force ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, to either divest itself of the company financially or be forbidden from placing the product in online app stores. TikTok responded with a coordinated campaign of lobbying; users of the app were pressured to call their local congressman (with a number helpfully supplied and a button to initiate the call) and “take action now to prevent a TikTok shutdown.” Congressional phone lines were subsequently flooded with tens of thousands of...