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 Not a fan of TikTok, but even less of a fan of any goverments telling you what you can or can't do.

It will serve just as a stepping stone for more bans and power grabs for them. The only thing all the parties always universally agree on.

Just show them the finger and opt out. They have no rights over your free choices. Their legitimacy ended long time ago, they just didn't catch up yet.

Use the tools over which they have no authority or coercive powers. Those tools were designs primarily for this purpose, of protecting your freedoms and rights against any coercion. Nostr is one of them.

Nostr also has a very anti-monopolistic design, so that not even the clients have any coercive powers over you (unlike facebooks or twitters of the world). You will always be able to take your login, all your "friends" and content, and move to a more attractive competitor you want to play with.

* Supppemental recommended reading
- A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by J. P. Barlow

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence#main-content