[hackerlight]

This has nothing to do with nations or "The West". The same things are happening in countries outside the West -- look at the health impacts of soda in South America or the culture of plastic surgery in South Korea.

It's just companies optimizing singularly for profit. Your tobacco companies, opioid companies, fast food companies, legacy social networks, gambling companies, alcohol companies and oil and gas companies have been doing damage to regular people for longer than Tik Tok has, and for the exact same reasons.

[throwaway64643]

It's funny seeing American blame other unfriendly countries for their new problems, especially when it's ubiquitous on mainstream media. Odd that no one has blamed China, or Russia, or any aggressive foreign state for their overweight, obesity epidemic.