Time Runs Out on TikTok

The recently passed federal legislation is about national security, not free speech.

Recently I wrote an oped defending the forced divestiture of TikTok against largely libertarian arguments for free speech on the internet. Rep. Mike Gallagher’s bill to that effect was being slow-walked in the Senate, so it seemed there was plenty of time. As luck would have it, the TikTok bill was passed as part of Speaker Mike Johnson’s log-jam-breaki…