I'm torn between two places here.
In one place, I don't give a shit about TikTok, I had it installed on my phone for like less than 1 day on the recommendation of a friend. I found it annoying so I removed it. I legitimately do not understand how people get hooked on scrolling through short form video content all day. It's boring and intellectually numbing. The world, much less America, would be better off without it.
In the other place, most of the reasons I've heard for banning it feel like we just wanted the largest [mis]information factory to be in American hands, not China's. Like yeah, I get it, that sounds good for us on it's face. TikTok's algorithm is certainly a damaging one from a standpoint of causing American brains to become as smooth as the mirror-polished surface of the plutonium core of a nuclear warhead, but you'll never convince me it's any more or less damaging than Facebook's, and we seem to just be content to watch as Zuckerfuck removes the last vestiges of information controls in an effort to vault Facebook into TikTok's position so the CIA or whoever the fuck can rot our brains in an equitable fashion.
@cmontexas is kinda going crazy, I guess zoomer brains can't handle being without their apps, but it is what it is.