Long, long time go, I remember seeing a documentary on Michael Jackson and how he either completely removed ( or severely restricted ; I can't remember ) TV access for his children. As a child back then, I thought that was crazy. Looking back, that crazy bastard was onto something. TV fed us a lot of garbage. Social media is worse, because it gets us better and better garbage.

It is almost like we keep getting an algorithmically improved media equivalent of a big mac each time we bring it up.

You are, naturally, right about that there is no distinction between TikTok, FB and others. It is all crap. Ideally, it would all just disappear.

Now, that is the hard part.

Sure. Not at all happy about that either though.

If China also fed its users nonsense, it wouldn't be a very useful weapon.