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I have no issue with Tiktok remaining a platform in America, but as someone who has used tiktok all throughout high school until today as a senior in college, I think it is objectively bad to use this app. Some of my friends that also use tiktok can ONLY watch videos in 2x speed. They don't even have the attention span to watch a video at normal speed any more, which they proudly admit for some reason.

I also do think there is a little bit of passive censorship about controversial topics. For example, if you lookup "free tibet" or "free hong kong", the posts there have at most 2-5k likes, and it seems like these posts never really "hit" the algorithm's sweet spot and get famous. Sure, this is entirely anecdotal, but I do find it a bit odd how the algorithm chooses what to show and what to hide.

Once again as someone who uses it, I think tiktok and its algorithm are definitely crippling the youth of America. At the same time, it doesn't sound right to ban it.