What does ‘better’ mean here? Eg TikTok is better at personalising recommendations where facebook tends to give more generic content, so TikTok may better give people what they want but also be more addictive/have a stronger filter-bubble effect.
There's one TikTok for me, and one TikTok for thee. The Chinese version promotes educational videos, and has a strict daily time limit. The "export" version is literally designed to make you retarded. Agree that other apps aren't much better though (especially now that they've redesigned themselves after TikTok's model...)
Why banning it then? Don’t US/EU have power to force educational content and time limits? This “oh, all feeds are bad, we should think of maybe banning them all” will lead nowhere 100% of times. Feels like China absolutely doesn’t even have to do anything bad because the US don’t know what they want.
Why can't we restrict TikTok to the same content only in the west? It's just a matter of regulation, we know it's possible because it's how it's done in China. Now think about it, is it really China here to blame for our regulations?
If calling it what it is helps encourage people to stop doing it to themselves (we are after all emotion-first, rationalization-later!)... then your taking offense on my behalf (for the record, I do have brain damage) will have been an acceptable cost.
