The Biden Administration is reportedly not going spend its last hours enforcing it.
So seems that this is one of those issues that affects people directly and cuts across party/ideological lines.
Personally, I’m torn.
I don’t like the look of it or how it functions.
But people love it.
You hang out in your playground, I’ll stick with mine, and everybody wins.
Here’s where it gets complicated, though.
There’s a price to be paid for keeping TikTok available.
A societal one, as well as a national security one.
There is no disputing that.
Download the same app in China, and it’s all positivity.
All while data mining every American user like we’re filled with zinc and lithium.
And they are not on the side of the angels on this one.
On the other hand, there’s a heavy societal price already being paid by this decision.
Hard as that may be to accept.
Worse still, it’s costing us Jackson Mahomes:
Sure, he’s insufferable.
Utterly devoid of talent.
Providing zero reasons to consume his content.
- But he wasourno-talent glommer.
And TikTok was the perfect platform for his worthless, entertainment-free, self-aggrandized, narcissistic attention whoring.
And for that, all of us are poorer in spirit.
Even if we’re safer and more cyber secure.
Thanks for nothing, highest court in the land.
You just ruined America.
(* I shouldn’t speak ill of the dead.
“Do you know who I am?”
And then continued, “it’s possible for you to’t talk to me like that!
I’m Kirk Douglas' son!”
To which someone stood up and said, “I’M Kirk Douglas' son!”
Another stood up, “I’M Kirk Douglas' son!
“:
Soon it was the whole audience.
If true, it was the greatest spontaneous group heckle in comedy history.
And I believe it because I want to believe it.)
