@arstechnica I don't know. A number of people involved are probably doing it for the wrong reasons, but it really is a potential huge danger.
My biggest hope here is that this will set the groundwork for a lot of other things. For example, Facebook has long been known to be a major security issue with countless people being manipulated through it and its algorithms even working to help this. The TikTok ban won't fix that, but maybe it could be the first stepping stone.
GenZ is not on board with business as usual neoliberalism and posts as such on social media.
Since TikTok is their most popular platform , they are going after it directly.
So to punish GenZ, they are enacting CCP style speech-squashing under the guise of protecting us from the CCP.
The US Government is slowly pissing away what remains of its moral authority when it prioritizes destroying free speech over making sure the population is housed and fed.
@arstechnica Although I'm concerned whether it's strictly on a legal ground, I cannot but be skeptical on that "protest." How? By cranking up their public "pranks?"