Tik Tok, Tik Tok

Commentary TikTok—the Chinese Communist Party’s Trojan Horse smartphone app that especially targets children and teens—is back in the headlines as Congress considers legislation to address the national security threat it constitutes, among other concerns.  Even if Elon Musk or another tech mogul were to roll out an alternative virtual pop candy platform, theoretically untainted by ties to foreign adversaries, do we want our kids sucking it down? TikTok is the intellectual equivalent of Skittles on speed. Indeed, TikTok is a potential existential threat from a national security and terrorism standpoint. Beyond that, however, there is a subtle yet no less serious peril eating away at the internal organs of our society—a slow drip of digital acid evaporating our children’s brains, creating an inbred army of youthful, hollow-skulled zombies....