I would be very annoyed if they banned Tiktok 🐮

I like watching Tiktok, especially AgTok and the bullhaulers and truckers doing bull hauling-trucking type stuff while stuck in traffic on the bus. While I don’t make my own TikTok videos, in part because my life is so boring, it sure is a lot of fun to watch.

Is Tiktok healthy, good way to spend time? Sure I could be watching an instructional video, learning a new skill, doing something better with my time while stuck in traffic in commute home, but sometimes after a long day of work, I need a breath of fresh air, even if it sometimes tastes a bit like diesel smoke and silage.

Tiktok is fun. I think concerns about it being used as a spy platform are overblown, as I don’t think there is much useful information to be gleamed out of such things. While I guess the platform could be grabbing geopositioning data from uploaded videos, I think people would have already figured out if the app was actually stealing data or other information from people’s phones at this point. It’s not difficult to put a network snooping app on a phone, and watch what traffic the app is generating — and I’m sure security researchers and developers have already searched out for nefariousness purposes.