This is not quite a ban but this is some interesting recent news. Not really a ban, nor targetting just Tiktok, but it's something.
Article: Utah is first US state to limit teen social media access
I think the parental controls will be a dud that is easily sidestepped, the thing I really think is good is the curfew if it's applied properly. Most kids wont be shilling out for a VPN, so they wont have much choice unless they buy one. So many kids have fucked up sleep schedules.. look it's fine if you are doing something with that time, by all means stay up all night making music, writing, studying, just don't fuck up your sleep so you can doomscroll more, that's lame.
I am curious what social media's this will apply to. Also I am curious how this will apply to existing accounts.
Also I thought this part was funny.
But Common Sense Media and other advocacy groups warned some parts of the new legislation could put children at risk.
Ari Z Cohn, a free speech lawyer for TechFreedom, said the bill posed "significant free speech problems".
"There are so many children who might be in abusive households," he told the BBC, "who might be LGBT, who could be cut-off from social media entirely."
Bad things will happen to abused kids if we ban social media!... like what? Opposition really grasping for something here...