I Wasn't In Favor Of The TikTok Ban On Free Speech Grounds, But Seeing People's Reactions To Getting

I wasn't in favor of the TikTok ban on free speech grounds, but seeing people's reactions to getting this app taken away for 12 hours has actually radicalized me. This app needs to be banned, regardless of the motivation behind it. I don't care anymore.

People my age and younger are saying that they get all of their information from TikTok. All of it. They don't use Google, don't use any other website. They get their "news," recipes, leisure, all of their social connections through fucking TikTok. Saw someone genuinely say that they don't know how they're going to cook for themselves because they don't have access to fucking cooking TikToks. Saw someone say that they don't even know what to read anymore because HOW are they going to know what to read without booktok? Saw people saying that they feel suicidal and that their hands are shaky and they couldn't sleep last night knowing that TikTok was gone.

This is fucking insane. People are addicted to this. I am so fucking radicalized against this app, it's destroying us as a society. And YES, this is a TikTok specific problem, you don't see people saying that they'll fucking die if YouTube or Reddit is taken away from them, Jesus Christ.

And now, because TikTok users are so desensitized to blatant propaganda, there are tens of thousands of people unironically praising dear leader Trump for restoring their app to them. THIS WAS SUCH A BLATANT PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN, are you fucking kidding me? "We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurances"? ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? This is something that a goddamn politburo would release. And people are eating it up.

We are so fucking cooked, y'all.