After TikTok faced a temporary ban in the US, we ask Birmingham locals if the UK should consider a similar ban. Are concerns about its links to the Chinese government justified?
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00:00It's tricky because I do think a lot of people spend way too much time on TikTok, on social
00:05media as a whole. I don't think, I think the concerns about it being, you know, a way for
00:12the government to spy or for Intel to release, I think it's, it is a big conspiracy at the
00:18end of the day and it depends on how much you lean into it. I don't think it would do
00:22us very much harm to really have a ban, but I think we have become too dependent on social
00:27media nowadays. I don't think a lot of people would be able to function properly without
00:31it. I think it's really, really tricky because there are so many arguments for TikTok providing
00:36great representation for people and access to knowledge and information that people wouldn't
00:41otherwise be able to access. I definitely would because I work with child mental health
00:46services and I think that the damage that it does a lot of the time, I think it does
00:50more damage than good. So yeah, I probably would personally. And I agree.