I agree with the author. It is voluntary to use services like TikTok but we should all try try to expose the privacy issues. They should be taken seriuolsy and

I agree with the author. It is voluntary to use services like TikTok but we should all try try to expose the privacy issues. They should be taken seriuolsy and I believe we need to regulate how TikTok and similar services can harvest and use data. As the author points out this is impossible with TikTok, since it is being run from a dictorial authoritarian regime with no scruples. Everything that is being run from China, Russia or North Korea should worry us, in my opinion. Dismissing problems related to Chinese ownership and surveillance of people is naive. Regarding TikTok as a channel for meaningful content, this is an extraction from an article I posted on LinkedIn this week on the same topic: "The constant stream of clickbait headlines, fast pace video clips, simplified texts and meaningless stories are ... acting as a thick fog that blurs our vision and hides all meaningful information. Social media is good at spreading content, but usually not very meaningful content. Platforms like TikTok are just our time’s linear entertainment TV channels, hyper charged to entertain us a few seconds at a time. Social graph based platforms like Facebook and Twitter are much the same, even though they claim to give us content that fits the interests and activities of the social group we belong to. But regardless of the effect the algorithms the different social media platforms have, they all focus on an attention span of seconds. What they call engagement is often nothing more than a continuous chain of distractions. "