Interestingly, you'd think that, but it's dead wrong. I'd say about a quarter of people actually use tick tock, compared to almost all using instagram or snap chat. There's a "subculture" of people that use it and are massively active, and most others don't use it at all. This strikes me as a massive impediment to tick tock's growth in America: it's entirely captured a specific group but has made essentially no inroads with any other.

> It's not a monopoly.

This is a straw-man; no one is saying it is. People are saying it's a national security risk.

> Virtually all of its "privacy violations" are the same violations done by Google, Facebook.

Well, I'm less sure of what tick tock does with data than either of those, so maybe better the devil you know? The concern is that at least at least FAANGs can be sued in a court of competent jurisdiction, whereas tick tock is based in an autocracy that is deeply opposed to the concept of freedom and means to make itself the foremost world power by any means necessary.