What I find ironic is that TikTok truly allows free speech as where most U.S. platforms do not. Maybe this is why the kids like it. And even though they are not discussing it right now, there are quite a few older folks here on the FR who use it probably for the same reason.
All semantics and national arguments aside this is about the bigger picture in whole. And that is we DO NOT need government to put their hooks into the internet in any form or fashion period. Once they do it will be death by a thousand cuts before they are done.
In that case, the appropriate thing for us to do is to download RedNote.
It'll make our government appear heavy-handed. They can continue to ban apps and website. But the thing is this.
We're not Russia. Or China.
So this may backfire and our government may not anticipate the backlash they'll get in the near future.
Our politicians want to get reelected. So we'll see if they'll change their minds on this issue.