The TikTok Ban is a Wasted Opportunity

The House just passed a de facto ban on TikTok. They missed a massive opportunity

Conor Kelly
The Polis
Published in
3 min readApr 23, 2024

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By ByteDance Ltd — https://www.tiktok.com/, Public Domain, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63490775

The House of Representatives officials passed the so-called TikTok ban in a vote of 360 to 58. The legislation now goes to the Senate and would require TikTok’s parent company, Byte Dance, to sell the social media app or face the app’s eventual removal from app…

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Conor Kelly
The Polis

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