In a larger context, I find the priorities of all of this amazing. The fact that social media (including TikTok) is actively designed for addiction and is curr

In a larger context, I find the priorities of all of this amazing. The fact that social media (including TikTok) is actively designed for addiction and is currently causing a generation-wide mental health crisis? Not a problem. The fact that all of those apps have been collecting and trading personal data for more than a decade by now? Not a problem. The fact that we know of Facebook's experiments on mood manipulation and we had several scandals about social networks successfully manipulating political opinion? Not a fucking problem. Only when there is risk that all the data gathering, manipulation and exploitation might be done by a foreign state, then social media suddenly becomes a matter of national security.