While I would find an American tiktok ban funny, this satire/article gives me mixed feelings because the "tiktok ban legislation" they're trying to pass, has some real dystopic shit hidden in it, behind the only slightly dystopic veil of "banning the Chinese".
"These commie Timtoks will drag the kids to hell where they'll burn with the D&D dungeon masters and the people who hand out free hallucinogens to children!"
More than that, it seems to validate the Chinese philosophy that censorship is the right way to combat foreign influence. The enforcement mechanisms are pretty obvious follow-ons of the premise, which is why we've mostly attempted to avoid this kind of thing. In my mind the marketplace of ideas fallout is the real problem.
Tiktok got banned in India years ago. For anyone rejoicing, it doesn't matter, many other apps full the gap unfortunately the forefront being instagram reels which basically started right after tiktok got banned here