The US is banning TikTok, could Fortnite and League of Legends be next? | This Week in Business

The US government this week said it will ban TikTok if the platform isn’t sold in the next nine months.

It’s a terrible idea, one predicated on the app being a national security risk because it’s owned by Chinese firm ByteDance.

ByteDance said it will challenge this through the courts, but with the Supreme Court now firmly entrenched in its Calvinball era, who knows if the actual constitutionality of the law (or lack thereof) will have any bearing on its ultimate fate?

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