I’m not a huge user of TikTok. If anything, I use it for travel ideas. However, I find it insane how our country worked faster to get an app banned than it did to get assault rifles banned mass shooting after mass shooting.
The big disconnect is gen z doesn't view China as the enemy. They're not the ones shooting up our schools, putting us in a lifetime of debt to go to college, taking away our bodily autonomy. The boogie man doesn't work on us we weren't spoon fed Cold War propaganda
this is harm reduction and it is public health, even if it makes you uncomfortable this reduces spread of disease and reduces injury related to substance use. it also gives those at risk a way to have connection w resources if they need them through the people who give them out.