It's the latest and greatest in terms of attention grabbing/stealing, so people get defensive about it because they spend lots of time using it. I get annoyed

It's the latest and greatest in terms of attention grabbing/stealing, so people get defensive about it because they spend lots of time using it. I get annoyed with the "but facebook does it too" argument as well. I don't really like throwing around the "foreign country disinformation campaign" accusations, but whenever tiktok comes up on this site it's hard to imagine regular people saying some of the things that are said about why it's "no less trustworthy" than american social media companies. Even with this article, people will respond with "well, they probably weren't surveilling me because I don't have anything to hide." And then I show them the story about the cops that used social media to track a woman who went across state lines to get an abortion, and they get really mad.