One of the most astonishing trends of the past few decades has been people’s seemingly bottomless appetite for consuming more media.

You weren’t especially interested in yesterday’s update on the struggle for Internet dominance, Dear Reader.

The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.