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Column: Congress may be out of touch with technology, but the concerns over TikTok are right (via latimesopinion )

that garnered more than 10 million views. “I swear to god we need to get competent and younger people in office.”Maybe, for a change, Congress isn’t the one being lame?

Finding a historical precedent for our rivalry with China is difficult. Pundits and politicians like to talk about a “new Cold War,” but the analogy is. The Soviet Union had moderate success peddling ideologically seductive ideas about politics and economics to American activists and intellectuals partly because it tried to put those ideas into practice, but it didn’t have much to sell us in terms of goods and services.

That’s fine. And if China had a different political system, and different political ambitions, few would care about the national security issues raised by TikTok. Its ambitions, however, are obvious. It’s been less than two months since the U.S. caught ChinaDefenders of the app argue that the government hasn’t provided evidence of user data being accessible to China-based employees of ByteDance.

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