In the race to buy TikTok, billionaire Frank McCourt is pitching investors with a chance to create a new platform that gives users the ability to control their own data. "I don't want to own TikTok," he told reporters Thursday. "I don't want to be the CEO of a social media platform. I want a new internet. A new improved alternative to what we have." McCourt's move comes at a time when concerns about data privacy and child safety online have led to dozens of bills at the state level, and a bipartisan push to move federal legislation. His pitch has drawn a key group: Parents whose children died after being influenced by social me