There has been a lot of discussion in the US Congress about banning TikTok, the popular social network owned by Chinese company ByteDance. The plan that US lawmakers have come up with, is to pass a legislation that would allow the US president and the Department of Commerce to ban TikTok. The proposed legislation has been named the Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology Act, also known as the RESTRICT Act. However, lawmakers in the US need to consider that if they do go ahead with a ban on TikTok, using the Restrict Act…