[kalverra]

Agreed it's crazy, but it's a good political move. Everyone agrees we should ban it, but no one wants the blame because you'll have a huge amount of teenagers and young adults who will blindly hate you for it. So if you're the one who isn't in charge of the hard-but-good decision (or in Trump's case, if you don't particularly give much of a shit about it anyway) it's easy to just pick the most politically advantageous side.

[MisterBastahrd]

You forgot to switch accounts when you decided to agree with yourself.

[mandmandam]

> it's crazy

Yes.

> but it's a good political move

Domestically, maybe, and only in the short term. Internationally, not at all. It makes America look very weak and hypocritical, at a time when America can ill afford to look even worse.

> Everyone agrees we should ban it.

No, they don't. The media and political classes agree. That's not the same thing.

In reality less than half agree, last I checked [0].

> you'll have a huge amount of teenagers and young adults who will blindly hate you for it.

Blindly? Young people already hate Biden, and it's not because of TikTok. It's the two-faced support of mass murder, the economy, the inequality, the lies, the inflation, the oil drilling, the union attacks, the failure to deliver on campaign promises, etc. [1]

Blaming TikTok for that is just an easy wedge. There's nothing smart about it; it's cynical, divisive, and extremely stupid in the long term.

0 - https://www.reuters.com/technology/close-half-americans-favo...

1 - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/young-voters-...