TikTok ban?

[TOMTE]

I support the ban but not for the reasons it's being banned (aka the whole China thing. No, China is not using tiktok to spy on us or whatever the heck. Get your sinophobia in check and do some research).

The app is harmful because kids and teens and even adults are so obsessed with it that there is basically no literacy of any kind online anymore. We have all these "influencers" ( ) giving people straight up misinformation, sometimes dangerous, and people can't, I don't know, think for themselves and research whether it's actually true or not. Armchair diagnoses of mental illness of total strangers based on nothing and etc... It's kind of dystopian.

Plus, can't you all (not anyone here; just tiktok users in general), I dunno, find hobbies? Instead of watching hundreds of 30 second clips for hours on end? So many people who use tiktok act like it's the end of the world or a violation of their rights or something, that they won't be able to waste time on that app anymore. I've seen straight up tantrums online by teenagers who could literally just pick up a book or go outside or literally anything else instead.

I've always hated tiktok. Sometimes I watch funny tiktok compilations on youtube because yeah, there are some actually funny videos on there. But the entire app is/was a cesspool. So I say good riddance.

 

[Noraaaaa]

I support the ban but not for the reasons it's being banned (aka the whole China thing. No, China is not using tiktok to spy on us or whatever the heck. Get your sinophobia in check and do some research).

The app is harmful because kids and teens and even adults are so obsessed with it that there is basically no literacy of any kind online anymore. We have all these "influencers" sick) giving people straight up misinformation, sometimes dangerous, and people can't, I don't know, think for themselves and research whether it's actually true or not. Armchair diagnoses of mental illness of total strangers based on nothing and etc... It's kind of dystopian.

Plus, can't you all (not anyone here; just tiktok users in general), I dunno, find hobbies? Instead of watching hundreds of 30 second clips for hours on end? So many people who use tiktok act like it's the end of the world or a violation of their rights or something, that they won't be able to waste time on that app anymore. I've seen straight up tantrums online by teenagers who could literally just pick up a book or go outside or literally anything else instead.

I've always hated tiktok. Sometimes I watch funny tiktok compilations on youtube because yeah, there are some actually funny videos on there. But the entire app is/was a cesspool. So I say good riddance.

I agree! Some influencers are very misleading and bad. I use it for horse videos and chicken videos only, but I have seen influencers. Some of them are so so so bad. I have tried to stay off influencers' videos, but you can not. You literally can not miss them. THEY ARE EVERYWHERE!!! I also agree with finding hobbies or something! I am only on it for 30-60 minutes a day and I feel like that's a lot. Then I find out that most kids are on it 2-6 HOURS A DAY?!?! Thats so bad!!! Pretty much the only reason I am a little bit sad about it is because all my edits of riding are on it and I cant post videos of riding to my friends anymore.

 

[notabitail]

I agree! Some influencers are very misleading and bad. I use it for horse videos and chicken videos only, but I have seen influencers. Some of them are so so so bad. I have tried to stay off influencers' videos, but you can not. You literally can not miss them. THEY ARE EVERYWHERE!!! I also agree with finding hobbies or something! I am only on it for 30-60 minutes a day and I feel like that's a lot. Then I find out that most kids are on it 2-6 HOURS A DAY?!?! Thats so bad!!! Pretty much the only reason I am a little bit sad about it is because all my edits of riding are on it and I cant post videos of riding to my friends anymore.

Instagram or YouTube.

 

[Noraaaaa]

Instagram or YouTube.

ik. i dont have insta. i have a yt

 

[AinaWGSD]

I don't use tiktok personally, though I do enjoy the few videos I see on other platforms. But I am concerned that the way this ban has been implemented is a slippery slope to government censorship for other internet platforms.

 

[OrpingtonManiac]

I don't use tiktok personally, though I do enjoy the few videos I see on other platforms. But I am concerned that the way this ban has been implemented is a slippery slope to government censorship for other internet platforms.

Yeah

 

[TOMTE]

I don't use tiktok personally, though I do enjoy the few videos I see on other platforms. But I am concerned that the way this ban has been implemented is a slippery slope to government censorship for other internet platforms.

Yes, that's my biggest concern.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Yes, that's my biggest concern.

Mine too. TikTok may be first but what’s next and where does it end?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I don't use tiktok (phone never had enough space to install it), but I'm not a fan of the app being banned. I know there are a lot of creators that grew to the size they did because they were on tiktok, and it saddens me that a large chunk of that is now basically gone. Plus I am a scroller on YouTube shorts and worry that will be a new target at some point if the current powers that be decide to try.

 

[Daisy June]

This is a whole side of TikTok more need to see. I had no idea about some of this, but everything you wrote is incredibly wrong. I cant belive this happened.

It was a strange and uneasy feeling from start to finish. There were teachers who witnessed their students getting slapped by the parents, people walking behind the students (in the camera's view) in only underwear. I could go on, but believe me it was an eyeopening experience. Sadly, when I taught in-class at our local charter school, the students were completely enthralled with the platform. It worries me a great deal.