It would be a lot more effective to regulate the things that make TikTok dangerous, rather than banning TikTok itself. Facebook, instagram, twitter, and a numbe

It would be a lot more effective to regulate the things that make TikTok dangerous, rather than banning TikTok itself. Facebook, instagram, twitter, and a number of other social media services are guilty of the same behavior and I'd really prefer none of them have the ability to affect us the way they do. Ban algorithmic ordering of content. Make a strong privacy policy that makes it impossible to track and/or collect data on you without opting-in. Make the opt-in text and prompt default to no, with the language of the opt-in and the buttons standard. Require ads to be prominently labeled, and require users to be offboarded if they break advertising laws. The real problem is that the aim of these bills isn't to protect us. It's to harm China, and to sneak in changes that gives the government more ability to access our private data, or to block encrypted communications.