When Congress discusses banning TikTok to keep our children safe from Chinese government spying, what do they really have in mind? And is it a pretext to bring back the military draft? The debate conjures up memories of when Congress adopted children’s interests in the No Child Left Behind Act, and inserted a provision allowing military recruiters unprecedented access to children’s data and enabled contacting children in schools in the absence of their parents. Military recruitment in schools is not allowed in any other Western country, and the United States did not ratify the UN Convention...