The Industry The Whole TikTok Saga Shows Just How Clueless Everyone Is Well, that escalated slowly over the course of four years. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Rebecca Noble/Getty Images, Allison Robbert/AFP via Getty Images, and Ting Shen/AFP via Getty Images. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. It is 2020. The United States government threatens to forbid access to TikTok within national borders unl...