If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times: when they come for us, they’ll be performing short, comedic, lip-synched dance videos. Today, “in a rare bipartisan effort to reign in the power of a major social media platform, Republican and Democratic lawmakers pressed [Tik Tok CEO] Shou Zi Chew on a host of topics, ranging from TikTok’s content moderation practices, how the company plans to secure American data from Beijing, and its spying on journalists.” The questioning focused on the Chinese ownership of the social network, but Congress hammered Chew about everything from Covid misinformation to suicides. Florida Rep Gus Bilirakis said of TikTok: “Your technology is literally leading to death.”

My kids use TikTok. I have a DJI drone. And our family has a Volvo and Polestar, each of which are subsidiaries of Geely Auto, a Chinese company. At this point, I could probably be labeled as a Chinese spy. As I wrote in my book, Please Scream Inside Your Heart, two friends of mine, one at the CIA, one at the Pentagon, have advised me (and the rest of you) to delete TikTok. So I don’t want to position the concerns about TikTok as an extreme position. Having a Chinese-owned social media app embedding itself into our lives is not without risk. But it’s worth noting that the things we fear from Chinese software companies—privacy invasions, data selling, democracy disruptions—are things that American social media companies have already been doing with our full cooperation. So what to make of today’s session? One irony is that Congress is holding these hearings for the same reason my 14 year-old daughter makes TikToks. They want to go viral.

+ Ian Bremmer on the pros and cons. Should the US ban TikTok?

+ 9 questions about the threats to ban TikTok, answered.

+ Vox: Is TikTok too big to ban? (I seriously doubt Congress could even ban just my two kids from TikTok. But I welcome any efforts to give it shot.)