Lucrative as it is for Big Tech, the U.S. must fight the urge of using its enemies’ tactics: Defending democracy is the one thing that banning TikTok will not do.

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In 2017, Zhang said he hoped ByteDance would become a global company – like Google. Tik Tok logos seen on smartphones in front of a displayed ByteDance logo in this illustration. Source: Reuters. “If ...