The Big Picture
Vincent Boland: A US ban of TikTok raises issues of principle and practicality and is antithetical to free speech
The US and the UK have over-reacted with these displays of performative pandering to political lobbies and snubbing of allies
What do you call it when capitalists object to capitalism doing its thing?
The question arises in the context of three developments in the few days where the governments of the US and the UK – those self-declared champions of the free market – moved to ban, or obstruct, or otherwise interfere in, commercial transactions they dislike, for political reasons.
First came a vote, approved by a majority in the US House of Representatives, to ...
