There's also the third issue, which is much more problematic to fix with regulation: short-form video is absolutely killing youth attention span. I know students who will ask another student a question, and then lose focus and zone out within literally 3 seconds and not hear the answer. This was not nearly as prevalent a decade ago.

> the third issue, which is much more problematic to fix with regulation: short-form video is absolutely killing youth attention span

We age gate tobacco, alcohol and even pornography. Is it impermeable? Of course not. Does it prevent Adam Mosseri from contemplating PornHub for Kids [1]? Yes.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/27/adam-mo...

But this ban clearly has nothing to do with that, because it's only about Tiktok and ignores all other short form video.

Yes. It also has little to do with the other point the parent of my comment mentioned (privacy), as they said.

Then ban all social media altogether.

And the 4th option - it’s eating American companies lunch and apparently the free market party thinks it’s now okay to take away things from its citizens based on scaremongering and innuendo.

I think most of us who are concerned about TikTok are equivalently concerned about Meta.

Not the politicians.