The EU just showed us another way of reining in TikTok

Everyone’s attention is on the U.S.’s moves to ban the app, but the European Union just showed it’s not messing around.

You probably saw the news that TikTok’s time could be up in the U.S., with a nine-month countdown triggered by the signature of a bill that would require TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to divest the app by Joe Biden. But while the U.S. TikTok ban could likely be batted down in court, an equally consequential decision has hit the app in Europe.