The protest against the TikTok ban in America is steeped in contradiction

ATurn off SA Looming on the horizon, TikTok in America feels like the last day of school. The British say goodbye to the Americans. Australians are waiting in the wings to replace exiled American power brokers. American users bid farewell to their fictional Chinese spies — a joke that refers to the US government’s accusation that China is using the app (owned by ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant) to monitor American citizens.