I can't help but think there's going to be a push to nationalize the product and award it's ownership or at least control to someone who's going to be equal but different when it comes to being exploitative. Why ban the single most influential propaganda Trojan horse when you can have it for yourself.
It's a dumb conversation, governments shouldn't and don't have the power to "ban" software. Who cares if people think it's bad. I think tiktok is almost certainly net detrimental to society. Tough luck, so are many things, that's not how government powers have been granted.
Perhaps, but society has decided that the more something is addictive, the more the government should interfere to protect people from themselves. See: Gambling, cigarettes. We have causative proof that this is both addicting and harmful (and often affects kids disproportionally) which may mean it merits more controls.
> TikTok ban: Vinod Khosla calls on Senate to pass bill
Of course TikTok are amateurs that's why they don't deserve to be in that market. Palantir, on the other hand, only processes personal information from half of Europe. /s
