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Good. Tiktok is a threat to humanity’s survival, or at least an extremely potent gateway drug to it.


If that’s the argument then you need to regulate social media as a whole. Instead this is specifically geopolitical intrigue rather than any care about the mental health of the American people.

Microsoft/Meta/A conglomerate of record labels(?) will buy TikTok and it’ll continue to exist just as it does today.


What would be interesting is a cap on followers. Would change the platform into being more social and less influencers driven.


> you need to regulate social media as a whole

No, actually we dont. There is no divine mandate that requires us to do that, especially in a scenario where the geopolitical rival is using our credulity to their advantage.




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