TikTok May Be More Dangerous Than It Looks

> China has long seen these platforms as potential weapons

Every social media platform can be weaponized and no platform is immune from that. Yes, TikTok is essentially Chinese malware, so just don't install it then. If I want to watch TikTok videos, I go to Youtube and search for 'Best TikToks 2022'. People regularly leak TikTok videos onto other more safer platforms.

>The major social media platforms are, in some hard-to-define way, essential to modern life. Call them town squares. Call them infrastructure. They exist in some nether region between public utility and private concern. They are too important to entrust to billionaires and businesses, but that makes them too dangerous to hand over to governments. We have not yet found a satisfying answer to the problem of their ownership and governance.

We had this problem with television and radio. We privatized them in the US and the regulated them with the FCC. Why is this not possible with social media platforms and why wouldn’t it work effectively?

tl;dr China bad