Armies are developing weapons to attack countries by manipulating how people think. TikTok can be seen as one, and Facebook too.

The author is right to generalize this beyond TikTok, since many other antisocial media platforms can do similar things.

Systems to attack or control the human brain are being worked on. Even if technology never reaches the point of planting specific thoughts in a brain, it could be capable of conditioning people. All that takes is the ability to make someone feel good or bad.

Eventually this will be one of the reasons to reject nonfree software.