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TikTok has a drug-like effect on the brain. Multiple studies show a clear link between excessive TikTok engagement and increased levels of anxiety, depression, and stress. Maybe it is time we regulate it like a drug?
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Is that because of engaging with tiktok, or because of the content on tiktok? If the app was exclusively pictures of kittens and nice flowers you saw on your commute, would it have a detrimental effect?
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What do you mean exactly, tax it as a vice?!
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Hyperbole of some sort. I think it works on both the positive and negative side of the axis too.
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It’s about 15 years ahead of its time. Too enlightened for most.
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I’ll have a packet of cigarettes, a fifth of vodka, and an unrestricted personal electro device.

ID please.

Seems entirely reasonable.

Possibility entirely ineffective, but then again I don’t often see children walking around with bottle a of booze.

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This is how the internet is run in countries where you need ID to connect to services. It’s not at all dystopian.
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