What’d he do?

Small children may have receptors in parts of their brain where THC could act as a depressant for things like heart rate and breathing. More study is necessary. Keep it away from your kids, which you should be doing anyways.

For adults? Nah.

Cool. Now do the other parts.

Better idea:

Force ByteDance to take on an American partner in operating TikTok in the US. All data must be handled on servers hosted by this partner purely in the United States, for a "nominal" fee. ByteDance must open up its source code to inspection by this partner and any US government agency that wants to see it, at will, no questions asked. The US government may halt the use of their service at any time for any reason, with or without an appeals process. Ideally, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and EU take up the same regime.

This is basically the bar set by the CCP for Westerners to operate within PRC; turnabout is fair play.

I think it'd just be fair play.

Most Western countries have to give a ton of local control over to Chinese companies (read: the CCP) in order to access the Chinese market. Those that don't play ball or threaten the iron-fisted political status quo, don't get to make money in China.

When the Chinese start having to do the same thing to get into the West, they might realize how abusive this practice is.

Well, if they're deriving revenue from AI output that is the result of training the AI with copyrighted source material, I'd say they owe the rights holder some cash.

Ah, but they supply a demand.

Not that they don’t lie to keep that demand up, but consumers fundamentally like plastics.

Imagine how much a hospital goes through.

Paper and metal are pretty recyclable.

Plastic isn't, but it's the darling of consumer products.