The House of Representatives approved a bill to force the Chinese company ByteDance, owner of TikTok, to divest or expose itself to a sanction. Biden assured that he will enact the law if it is approved; but also thinking about his duel against Trump, he opened an account on that social network.
If TikTok were finally banned, we would witness the end of one of the core ideas of the most powerful country, writes Julian Zelizer. The issue becomes truly relevant because two structural ideas of U.S. collide: national security and the right to freedom of expression, sacred like in no other country.