The new TikTok deal allows China’s ByteDance to keep 19.9% of the company, gripes National Review’s Jim Geraghty, a “complete violation of the law” that aimed to force a total sale. Any “deal that merely has the U.S. ‘license’ the algorithm doesn’t address the heart of the problem,” as “licensing is not ownership and monitoring is not control.” America “does the opposite,” refusing to “submit quietly” to Europe’s supposed moral ‘authority”; that’s “intolerable” to continental elites who “are not acting in the interests of European citizens, but in their own.”
Author: Post Editorial Board
Published at: 2026-01-25 21:11:31
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