TikTok, a wildly popular video-sharing app, has come under fire from President Trump and tech security critics both for being owned by a large Chinese company and for the spread of conspiracy theories on the platform, leading to calls for it to be banned in the U.S. The Onion breaks down the pros and cons of banning TikTok.
PRO
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Perpetuate illusion of keeping Americans’ personal data safe
Prevents China from pilfering national choreography secrets
Easier than trying to figure out how it works
Last post only got nine views
Fun little way to stoke tensions between countries locked in complex trade war
CON
Just started to get hang of leaking personal data
It’ll take months for another algorithm to figure me out
Teens will just find another way to hand over personal information to foreign companies
No fucking way we’re going back to Instagram stories
The only TikTok we’ll have left to entertain us is the long, drawn-out passage of time