Published January 23, 2025
TikTok seems to be safe and with it the Chinese Communist Party’s grip on American data and information consumption. It didn’t have to be this way.
Last spring, Congress passed and the president signed a law that required TikTok to be divested of its Chinese ownership by January 19, 2025, in order to continue operating in the United States. When TikTok predictably sued, a unanimous panel of the D.C. Circuit held that the law was constitutional, and the divesture requirement could go into effect a little over a month later.
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Michael A. Fragoso is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in the Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture Program, where he writes and speaks on issues relating to the law, the federal judiciary, and Congress. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy: Per Curiam, and elsewhere.
