Republican Sen. Josh Hawley is calling for a TikTok ban.

This is a day after another Republican, Sen. Marco Rubio, published an OpEd in Fox News also pushing for a ban.

To be sure, these Republicans care very little about TikTok's surveillance of users.

Their problem is that, unlike Meta or Twitter, TikTok is not an American company.

Nevertheless, I personally think surveillance capitalism should be banned wholesale on all social networks.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/international-business/us-business/article-us-senator-josh-hawley-wants-to-ban-tiktok-nationwide/

I really hope that progressives turn off the lizard brain response of "TikTok is good because Republicans say it's bad."

No, TikTok is bad.

The enemy of your enemy isn't necessarily your friend.

Is their opposition based on nationalism, racism, and yellow peril? Probably.

Is TikTok still monitoring and tracking teenagers, feeding them unhealthy content based on "relevancy" algorithms, screwing with their mental health? Yes.

All surveillance capitalism should be banned.

@atomicpoet

I think we need to be careful, otherwise we could face a huge influx to platforms like peertune for video sharing which could have the same effect as we had when thousands of joined here from Twotter/ as in serious overload and more work for admins.

I can write a post here with a few characters, video uses a lot more bandwidth.

Looking at the 'many tranches of the fediverse' graphic there is :-

Peertune
Owncast
Pixelfed (which is pictures anyway)
castopod
and maybe toa point nextcloud

Which of those provide a similar service to tik tok?

The fact kids are addicted to socal media, in this way shows a deeper problem with society, but yes this is partly caused by big tech and algorithms, but also the fact adults are just as guilty of being glued to their phones.