Glenn S. Gerstell: 'There’s no better evidence of why a government might fear the app’s insidious nature than the fact that TikTok is banned in China itself.'
The TikTok logo is seen on a cell phone on Oct. 14, 2022, in Boston.A ban of TikTok throughout the United States, if it could actually be enacted, would immediately solve our national security concerns about the wildly popular Chinese-owned video app. But such a ban might ultimately put our national security at greater risk.
When it comes to its own citizens, China has prohibited everything from Google to Twitter to this newspaper. Rather than viewing that asymmetry as unfair, we should recognize its symbolic value: America wins when it can show the world that it’s an open and democratic country. Not surprisingly, banning TikTok on the grounds that it’s a threat to our security won’t be seen by other nations as much different from the People’s Republic of China’s actions to protect itself.
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