The US is going to ban TikTok?

I’m sorry, I’m just now learning that congress has passed legislation to force the sale of TikTok. This is just weird…our uber-capitalist nation is trying to control an independent Chinese corporation?

Wait, not sorry. I don’t use TikTok, so in a personal sense, I don’t care. I’ve glanced at it, and it’s the worst social media app out there — it’s nothing but blipverts for idiots and posers. I never saw the appeal, although it does seem to be extremely popular.

Oh wait, sorry again, Facebook is definitely the most atrocious, evil, terrible social media app. I abandoned that so long ago that I’d forgotten how awful it was. Instagram is bad, too, but I do have an account there, and for the same reason I clung to Facebook as long as I did — I’ve got family who use it, so it’s nice to keep up with them. Although that useful function is being diluted by the fact that I’m seeing family photos interspersed with mobile game ads that I don’t want to play and vapid photos of young women just standing there, smiling at me. I’m a crotchety old man, I just want to yell at them to do something, say something, tell a joke, do you think being pretty is sufficient reason to interfere with my interactions with people I care about? It’s not good.

The solution to my grumpiness is simple, though: don’t subscribe to TikTok, unsubscribe from services that don’t appeal, let people who do like them use them. That feels almost…libertarian to me, but OK, not meddling seems like a good approach.

But then I learn that Trump has an alternative solution. He wants Elon Musk to buy TikTok.

Can you imagine, after seeing the hash he’s made of Twitter, how much worse Musk would make TikTok?

These guys all make the worst possible decisions.