Congress is considering a bill to demand TikTok to be sold to a non-Chinese owner, in order to keep operating in the US. Yet articles continue to talk about this as a plan to ban TikTok, rather than a plan to disconnect it from China. Why misrepresent this point?

Its intense collection of personal data clearly has the power to increase the harm it does, compared with Facebook. What that suggests is a law to prohibit any company from collecting data in this way. Ideally it would also limit the data Facebook can collect about its useds — that would increase the benefit of the law.