Great job, US government. You went so overboard with your “TikTok is an evil Chinese app” and deciding to ban it that you’re pushing kids to go even deeper into the Chinese app ecosystem. The US go…
They don’t mind that it’s ruining people’s brains. They just don’t like that it’s sending data back to the CCP, giving them direct access to a really huge number of American’s phones to do whatever they like, and giving them an uncomfortably free hand in guiding the perception of reality experienced by millions. But the harm it does to people on a personal level is as unimportant to the US government as it is to China’s.
They don’t mind that it’s ruining people’s brains. They just don’t like that it’s sending data back to the CCP, giving them direct access to a really huge number of American’s phones to do whatever they like, and giving them an uncomfortably free hand in guiding the perception of reality experienced by millions. But the harm it does to people on a personal level is as unimportant to the US government as it is to China’s.