TikTok ban won’t solve the problem: Social media needs regulation, not one company ban

A federal appeals court Friday upheld a controversial law banning the U.S. operations of TikTok — the massively popular video-based social networking app owned by Chinese company ByteDance — unless it finds a U.S. buyer. That gives the company just six weeks to keep fighting before the ax falls. We have our issues with TikTok, but we won’t be cheering that outcome.

This impacts a lot of Americans, as there are 170 million U.S. users, about half the total population of the country and more than the combined numbers who voted for Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

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