Government-owned smartphone bans are dumb and pointless

Basically all government employees with a work phone also have a personal phone. The bans are empty theater that fixes nothing and fools nobody.

The Chinese government could spy on or influence Americans via Chinese ByteDance-owned TikTok, so the American government banned TikTok on the four million or so US government-owned devices issued to employees.

Other governments boldly stepped in line to copy the US initiative. The UK banned TikTok on government phones. So did the European Union, New Ze…