Johanna Costigan is a writer and editor from New York. She writes about China’s digital governance, contested memory, and heterogeneous publics. Her articles and opinion pieces have been featured in Foreign Policy, Rest of World, The Diplomat, The China Project, Nikkei Asia, MERICS, the Los Angeles Review of Books China Channel, and other outlets.
The House of Representatives’ bipartisan passage of an act that would ban TikTok unless its Chinese owner ByteDance sells the company within six months is another testament to the power of invoking the word “China” to get American legislation passed.
Fears that data from TikTok’s users could be accessible by Chinese state and corporate actors were supposed to be addressed through, an expensive initiative the company devised of its own accord—in concert with a U.S. agency and a U.S. company . If the de facto TikTok ban advances through the Senate, those efforts would have been for naught, which is notable if not surprising.
China—or any foreign country—should not be exempt from the United States’ laws concerning social media and digital privacy. But first, the U.S. needs to enact such legislation.
The best-case scenario might even be that adults, seeing the liberation from algorithmic recommendations enjoyed by the youth, demand that lawmakers relieve them, too, of the tyranny of overly customized content. Even the adults who don’t have their own social accounts often have to cater to them in order to make a living in our increasingly social media-dependent economy.
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