TikTok Is Digital Crack Cocaine—Ban It Now

Health Viewpoints American legislators are considering a potential ban on TikTok. However, they have indicated a willingness to allow the video app’s Chinese parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance, to maintain operations on one condition—if ByteDance relinquishes ownership. Nonetheless, an outright ban remains the only sensible option, regardless of who owns ByteDance. The TikTok Threats We are talking about an app that is often described as the digital equivalent of crack cocaine. TikTok has garnered a reputation for disseminating unsuitable material, leading to its prohibition in multiple nations, including Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and even China, its country of origin. Notably, the fact that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) does not allow its own citizens to use TikTok should raise eyebrows. Instead, Chinese citizens use Douyin, a watered-down version of its controversial sibling....