TikTok Bans Face Obscure Hurdle

Wall Street Journal: “The measures, known as the Berman amendments, date to the last years of the Cold War. They took away the president’s authority to regulate or ban imports of ‘informational materials’ from adversarial nations such as Cuba, and shielded those who produced such works — and their U.S. distributors — from penalties for violating economic sanctions.”

“The dilemma for lawmakers now: how to write legislation to prevent China’s government from influencing content on TikTok or other Chinese social-media apps, and gathering data on users, without shutting down global exchanges of content — or inviting retaliation against U.S. platforms and media.”