There is a difference between real information and let people believe that they are informed. There is no objectivity possible when there is an algorithm working in the background.
The fact that this is even being downvoted is enough proof that what you’re saying is correct. Ironic that people on a subreddit devoted to getting around censorship love it so much.
Did you change both regions and use a vpn?
There is no “neutral medium which has no algorithm.” If the US Gov thought TikTok was a real threat they could simply force app stores to put a disclaimer on the app that says “China owned blah blah blah”, just like they do with Russian media. The ban has nothing to do with legitimate concerns about privacy, rather it has to do with OUR government only being able to use OUR algorithms to control OUR minds.
At the end of the day people should not be told what they can and cannot use/download and if you’re fine with the government doing so, I see almost no reason why you’d need to be using a VPN in the first place.
Literally everything uses an algorithm, even Reddit my guy.
Comes with the territory. I don’t believe in censorship. Hive mind Reddit thinks downvotes mean anything lol 
My guy, but reddit does not push any posts like crazy. Of course here are many trackers as well. But i still have a choice. On these other platforms you have no control whats in the timeline.
Hmm it could be the vpn since the free vpns use proxy so TikTok is able to see you’re in the us
My guy, on TikTok you have the ability to follow, like, favorite, comment, share, block, choose to not recommend that type of content/that user, etc. On top of all of those, you can also reset your For You Page.
These are quite literally all ways you can control “whats in the timeline.”
It’s clear you’ve never used any of these social medias and just prefer to believe whatever media sources you take in tell you.
But Mullvad is not a free VPN and all of its servers are paid servers.
This is the art of (anti-)social media. They make you believe that you are in charge of everything. But in real you’re a victim of the algorithm.
You have no control of what’s the next video because the algorithm decides what will come next. You might like or dislike or just see the content. The algorithm will make it to a value how likely you will react and come back if you see more of that content.
And it doesn’t matter of you like it or not. Every reaction on the postin is good as long as you do react. And just to see a full video is also a reaction.
This is the swipe algorithm shi* what I’m talking about.
Sorry idk why it’s not working
At the end of the day, Reddit is also a social media that uses their own proprietary algorithm to recommend you content. As a US citizen you should have the ability to access the social medias that you want, full stop.
The government telling you what apps you can and cannot download on your phone sets an awful precedent that you’d be idiotic not to see.
The solution would be to make the algorithm public and people should see how an algorithm works. So they can make their own decisions. Now its simply a dictatorship of big tech how an algorithm works. That is worst.
I 100% agree that we should make as much of that information public as we can, and I believe that this is where government intervention could be a good thing, but in a different manner than what is currently happening.
Banning TikTok or any social media will not make other social media’s more open source, rather the government should regulate these companies to make the algorithms they create to be open source so individuals can make an informed choice.
Now we’re there. Ok, that’s what I also agree with. Banning social media is not the solution, thats right. But people must be able to see what they are interacting with.