There are few tech platforms in the United States as beloved and reviled as TikTok. It boasts more than 150 million U.S. users—and seemingly everyone in power wants to ban it.
Always on the forefront of authoritarianism, Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced a TikTok-banning bill back in January. Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) followed up in March with the Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology (RESTRICT) Act, a measure that could be used to ban TikTok along with basically any app that has even tangential ties to a “foreign adversary.” Last month, Montana’s governor signed into law a bill banning TikTok (it’s already being challenged in federal court.)
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