Over the weekend, Microsoft admitted that it would like to acquire the non-Chinese assets of TikTok. Doing so would be a mistake.

News of Microsoft’s interest in TikTok, a social media network that specializes in goofy, user-made videos, first surfaced last Friday. But the software giant confirmed the rumors over the weekend after the U.S. White House revealed that it was considering “banning” TikTok for national security reasons.