A law that effectively bans the Chinese-owned app TikTok from use in the United States as of Sunday gives hundreds of millions of Americans the opportunity to throw down their devices and get touch the grass. The question is, did they?
Americans who endlessly flip through cringey dance videos, satirical skits, sneaky brand deal ads from influencers, and everything in between were immediately interrupted by a message threatening TikTok’s continued operations in the United States.
” Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now”, the flash says, blocking anyone from accessing any of the phone’s videos or editing capabilities. ” A rules banning TikTok has been enacted in the U. S. However, that means you can’t use TikTok for now”.
The business expressed confidence that incoming president Donald Trump” may work with us on a solution to restore TikTok once he takes office,” which Trump confirmed he will use his executive authority to accomplish on opening time. But TikTok still did not specify how it planned to comply with the law banning “foreign adversary-controlled software”.
Blog lovers had a unique prospect at the time to make the ban work for them.
People who have tried to fix their browsing issue have previously attempted to do so by concealing Big Tech applications on their laptop home displays, signing out, or even deleting their accounts. But to no cost. After all, the defining characteristic of addiction is that it outweighs most attempt to get rid of it.
However, because of TikTok’s endless inaccessibility status, scrollers are practically forced away from the urge to open the black, green, and aquamarine music note box on their screens every time they unlock their pocket devices. This is something people who are so concerned about their scrolling issues try to use placeholders like screen time limits and even real lockboxes could only dream of.
The people flooded American-owned Big Tech feeds with issues and even emotional remembrances for the game, which has maintained an inexplicably present appearance in social press scrollers ‘ lives, instead of utilizing this opportunity.
Many of the next of the” time” app users in the United States have become so compelled to use it that they can’t actually fill one night without it. As soon as the TikTok ban went into effect, picture junkies who rebranded themselves as” TikTok refugees” flocked to other online serotonin platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and even Red Note, another Chinese-owned application actually named for communist dictator Mao Zedong’s little red reserve of quotations, to find their “feel good hormone” repair.
Americans are so desperate to surrender their trip and real-time relationships, put their electric protection on a dish, and dismiss questions about U.S. national surveillance just so they can return to the fabricated world of likes and comments.
We are aware that using self-importance-flattering apps for hours a day has a negative effect on mental health and behavior. However, the increasing number of American adults who complain about feeling hopelessly alone several times a week continue to do it.
For those users who want to stop some of the harm that social media has caused to their minds and souls, the TikTok ban is ideal. They simply have to be able to withstand other temptations.
Is it easier to say “free up your time” and “rest your eyes” than to do so? Absolutely. But going one weekend without access to the app will not kill anyone, at least until Trump and TikTok figure out the app’s future. In fact, it might save them.
The Federalist staff writer and host of The Federalist Radio Hour, Jordan Boyd. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordanian completed her political science major at Baylor University and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.
