It's instructive that the most rabidly anti #TikTok conservative figures seem to be coming from a place of being completely out of touch with and misunderstanding the youths.

I keep hearing them say, Where did [insert idea] come from? Nobody was talking about that before the Chinese started manipulating kids through the TikToks!

But of course, they were talking about it, just in different circles that the speaker wasn't aware of.

This says a lot about many topics and many sides, but generally:
Echo chambers promote ignorance that leads to assumptions that manifest in heavy handed non-solutions to misidentified problems.

And all too naturally, those proposals will tend to be rather authoritarian efforts to fix people.