Commentary
Under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (FARA), TikTok matches the definition of a foreign agent and should be banned.
U.S. lawmakers are considering banning TikTok to protect American data from being shared with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). China’s National Intelligence Law obliges all Chinese companies, no matter where they are located, to share data with the CCP and to aid Beijing in intelligence gathering.
Under FARA, TikTok and other Chinese companies qualify as foreign agents. FARA “requires the registration of, and disclosures by, an ‘agent of a foreign principal’ who, either directly or through another person, acts on behalf of a foreign government within the United States.”…