IMO the real issue isn't so much privacy but that Americans failed to build social media Americans want to use. In the marketplace of ideas a Chinese company is winning. Their formula resonates with a generation of American teenagers and is the voice of their generation. This speaks to a profound failure by older generations to create media zoomers want to consume. It also highlights why privacy is dead - young people know Tik-Tok is owned by China and that anything they post is public but don't beilive in privacy as a concept anymore, even if it's privacy against an invasive, manipulative, evil foreign power.