Elden Lord Godfrey posted:

the incentive structure of tiktok is simply an accelerated version of that on youtube and instagram, just an absolute firehose of algorithmically optimized nonsense to part attention from everything else in the world. a difference in degree, not in kind

this is the kind of no-win situation that the government is in, these algorithms are an infohazard and at the same time their dopamine input into the users brains are going to make any attempts to ban them unpopular, so the political opposition will find it advocate for the removal of those bans



of course, turning it into a new front of the new cold war with china is a hilariously stupid angle and just demonstrates that the biden administration are cowards trying to outflank the gop on their hawkish attitude towards china. just what we all need. a new cold war as the world burns and seawater rise and hundred-year storms destroy swathes of land