$400 M is the penalty for destroying our species. Will we ever get justice for anything ever again?

On top of the privacy effects, short form video (SFV) is degrading everybody’s cognition.

High-frequency SFV use was consistently associated with attentional disruption, reduced executive functioning, and emotional dysregulation. Several studies reported increased anxiety and compulsive use, though findings were heterogeneous.

And a firehose of mis and disinformation.

TikTok Is a Misinformation Minefield.

Lots of reasons to help our friends and family get off it. Mental health effects, targeted disinformation, and privacy loss.

This is not law but a business model.