Banning TikTok is stupid.
Forcing its sale is unlike to work.
There’s a better approach: use TikTok as a wedge to open China for western tech giants.
Get all the details in my latest post for Forbes:
There’s a different path to take here. And perhaps a better one.
Instead of banning TikTok or forcing ByteDance to sell it, how about quid pro quo with China? If China wants its big tech platforms like TikTok to have access to western markets, China should open up Chinese markets to western big tech: Google, Meta, Snap, and the like.
All the detail here: TikTok Quid Pro Quo: A Different Approach