Give one good reason that doesn’t hinge on racism or conspiracies about Chinese surveillance. And make sure it is a reason to ban TikTok specifically, and can’t be applied to all social media. There’s no reason to single out tiktok beyond racism and anti-chinese fearmongering.
You’re right, there’s a very good reason to ban all social media just because of surveillance, Chinese or American. And to shut up those influencers who are nothing more than glorified advertisers that people follow for some reason.
Why is surveillance something to be worried about? And is all surveillance created equal? These aren’t “gotchas” or whatever, these are honest questions about your thought process here. Why is surveillance bad? What things can it be used to do? And surely another country’s surveillance is overall less impactful (and less of a threat) than your own. (I’m far more worried about my own government spying on me than I am with a foreign country like China, simply because they have less ability to actually do anything to me, being an ocean away).
Because I don’t want to be spied on. What’s wrong with having some privacy?
American tech oligarchs wants to buy TikTok at fire sale prices. That’s as good an explanation as you could ever get for “banning” TikTok.
imo tiktok shouldn’t be banned but tbf short form content is brain-melting, and I’m speaking from experience. my attention span is still recovering from when i used tiktok/yt shorts.
I try not to use it after I had a night where I just lay in bed watching shorts instead of sleeping, it’s really easy to just lose all your time to it. I’m not sure if my attention span is damaged from this stuff or something else, but I struggle massively with focusing on my work in the last 6 months or so in a way I never did before.
