The telling fact presented in the article is that Western-style Tik Tok is no longer available to Chinese users, replaced with a version that empthasizes healthy pursuits such as technical learning and it also reinforces alliegence to the State, the CCP.
So....while Western children vegitate, Chinese children are guided to become smarter and more obidient citizens.
Chinese high schoolers learn quantum mechanics and high level calculus, while our kids try to figure out what bathrooms to use. They have to compete for university seats, or be branded as a loser.
This isn’t TikTok’s fault. It the PARENTS FAULT.
I see more conservative info on TikTok than Twitter, by far, and much less censorship than Facistbook. Anti vax threads are allowed. The truth about Covid is allowed. The liberals are shouted down there - with facts.
The software for TikTok came from Vine (formerly part of Twitter). I’m hoping Elon revives it at Twitter.
It’s a free market folks, if you want something better, invent it. But calling for banning it is a knee jerk libtard response. Yes, even when Trump says so.