I don’t get why this didn’t happen years ago.
It had to wait for there to be a very specific level of anti-China sentiment because, as people on both sides of the substantive issue of "should TikTok be cracked down on?" have conceded throughout this thread, there was little to no political will to do it for the right reasons.They also decided to shove it into a must-pass foreign aid bill. I'm sure the Senate would have voted to ban it as well, but it didn't even get a good debate.
I don't like the TikTok ban, but if I was in Congress, it's not a poison strong enough to stop me from voting to send aid to Ukraine. Even if it's inevitably upheld, the TikTok ban likely won't be enforced for a couple years. There probably won't be a decision from SCOTUS until at least 2026 (with that part of the law obviously being enjoined until at least that time).
