Do you think anything will come of this? I have no hate for artists and people using it as a creative outlet but the bulk of that platform is straight non-sense. There is LGBT+ propaganda, anti-black propaganda, and the fact that China is using it to spy on people and harvest their private data for God knows what purposes.... I'd be happy to see it get axed. The issue is, even if Apple and Google remove it in the US... People can still just download it online. I think they got enough people hooked now. They should have banned it back in 2020 when they were talking about it. I think it is too late now.
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