tiktok should be banned bc my mom uses it the WHOLE day, and i'm the one doing all the house work except for cooking

I am for free speech 110%; so, even as much as it pains me to say, TikTok shouldn't be banned.

The last blog that Overlord Angela wrote was actually this one about why the US government wanted to ban TikTok, which went into a lot more detail than this one does, and I disagreed with her conclusion as well.

As a Libertarian, I am strongly against the idea of banning TikTok or any other social media platform, because IMO it is a blatant violation of our God-given rights to freedom of speech and freedom of expression enshrined in the 1st Amendment, and if TikTok is causing problems for kids, then their parents should simply keep them from using it.
(Alcohol is a lot more dangerous for kids than TikTok is, and we don't ban that anymore, now do we?)

As for TikTok being Chinese, that is completely irrelevant. To be blunt, the Chinese government doesn't give a crud about what regular US citizens do online, and we should be far more afraid of American companies that are beholden to our own increasingly tyrannical government, which has a lot more interest in controlling our online activities than the Chinese ever will.
(And even if they wanted to, it'd be pretty hard for the Chinese to come after you if you live in the US or Europe without it becoming an international incident, lol!)

“The TikTok ban was driven by claims that, because ByteDance is a Chinese company, TikTok is controlled by the Chinese government and, thus is helping the Chinese government collect data on American citizens. However, the only tie ByteDance has to the Chinese government is via a Chinese government controlled company that owns a small amount of stock in a separate ByteDance operation. Furthermore, ByteDance stores its data in an American facility not accessible by the Chinese government.

Just days before passing the TikTok ban, the same Senate that is so concerned about TikTok’s alleged violations of Americans’ privacy passed the FISA reauthorization bill. This bill not only extended existing authorities for warrantless wiretapping and surveillance, it made it easier for government agencies to spy on American citizens. It did this by requiring anyone with access to a targeted individual’s electronic device to cooperate with intelligence agencies.”

--Former Rep. Ron Paul (Source)