No senators should be protecting China's control of TikTok

Despite the best push yet to finally force TikTok to divest from the Chinese Communist Party or face a ban, several senators are looking to protect the CCP spyware for a variety of selfish and ill-thought-out reasons.

On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted 352-65 to pass the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which would force TikTok to divest from the CCP-aligned company ByteDance in order to continue operating in the United States. Apps controlled by other foreign adversaries — Iran, North Korea, and Russia — also could be forced to be sold off or cease operating in the U.S.