TikTok is, as security expert Bruce Schneier says, part of a "shady" company.

China is a vile dictatorship that censors and spies on its people, and is an international predator.

But Congress members are lying when they pretend that banning TikTok is a solution to the problems Congress itself has allowed to fester -- namely the tech and big data industries' relentless spying on all of us.

Solve that, with tough laws, and TikTok is much less of an issue. Hint: Congress prefers theatrics.