Commentary
ByteDance employees in China have repeatedly accessed the private information of tens of millions of American TikTok users, according to a recent report from BuzzFeed News. The people behind the app cannot be trusted. Moreover, the app itself is dangerous. Like an illicit, highly addictive opiate, TikTok ruins lives.
When you hear the word “addiction,” what images spring to mind? An alcoholic stretched out on the pavement, surrounded by empty bottles? A drug addict, homeless, and hopelessly lost? How about a person scrolling mindlessly on social media, wasting hours, weeks, months, and even years of their life away?
Excessive social media use is comparable to drug addiction. Of course, not all drugs are created equally. Some are more potent than others. The same goes for social media platforms. Of all the platforms out there, TikTok appears to be the absolute worst….