TikTok, our young people's pastime is controlled by China

The Beijing government newspaper, China Daily, calls the US campaign against TikTok cold war paranoia. There is at least one Democratic Congressman in the United States who feels the same way. Jamaal Bowman of New York. We are getting hysterically excited – says Bowman – to turn TikTok into a scapegoat”. Bowman, however, not particularly young, a middle-aged gentleman, uses an account on TikTok but with 159,000 followers not worthy of being an influencer. The vast majority of US lawmakers think differently from him. With an overwhelming bipartisan consensus, the verdict of the latest debate in Congress is this: the digital platform TikTok, with 150 million users in the United States alone, represents a double danger, for national security and for the health of young people. A far more representative voice than that of Bowman, to define the current atmosphere, is the Republican Congressman from Texas Dan Crenshaw. Here's how he spoke during the congressional debate: I want to say this to all the teenagers and all the influencers who think we are old, that we have lost touch with reality, that we want to ban their favorite app.