The irony is that if TikTok is successful in its call for users to act, then there is more evidence that it occupies a privileged position in directing a large

The irony is that if TikTok is successful in its call for users to act, then there is more evidence that it occupies a privileged position in directing a large number of people's mental energy. The larger question of TikTok is when will the US will join China in creating national boundaries for Internet traffic? I don't like the thought of IP packets going through a customs and immigration layer as it passes a physical boundary. On the other hand, everything else does, why not a packet? Is the current openness an utopian artifact that will go the way of "no sales tax" for online stores? Is my dislike merely an aesthetic judgement formed from the history of negative stories about the "Great Firewall of China?"