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Comment by jerryjerryjerry | Hacker News Reader

What can we do with it? Seems hopeless...

Don't use it and if you have children with access to mobile devices take steps to ensure they can't use it.

And then we are probably in a loop to tell our children the same thing, "don't use it" which really depends on how well one can do self-control, but I guess that's one of the hardest parts to many people.

It's easy to say don't use it.

The difficulty is getting buy-in from kids, when all their friends are in it and using it as a cultural reference.

India has banned it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_TikTok#2020_ban

I like this

The US tried but because it was Trump it was bad orange man mentality towards the ban.

I wish we could do away with social media in general. It’s horrible.

That so-called "ban" would have just left TikTok under the ownership of Trump's buddy Larry Ellison -- would this really have improved anything?

Struck me as entirely performative.

He tried to force a sale to remove the link to the CCP. Here in Taiwan I blocked tiktok because just signing up and scrolling displays anti America content. It’s a platform for pushing the CCP propaganda. How many times do I need to see “covid is caused by america” videos?

How many times do I need to see Covid is caused by China being nefarious? Or rich people worked hard for their money. Or whatever other uptight rigid status quo bullshit permeates most facets of western life.

Just delete it

Read the reviews...don't even install it.

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