A massive recurring fine is much better than a ban.

Just fine them to death and they will cave. Just look at how scared Meta is in releasing Threads in the EU.

Whoa now, slow down there.

Ban some of what TikTok's doing and enforce it fairly? Sure. But let's not actually get more authoritarian here.

What next, we'll legislate away selling drugs to kids? I mean, kids have rights to the most addictive stuff known to mankind, too.

>What next, we'll legislate away selling drugs to kids?

And that worked out great; drug use among kids nowadays is way higher than it was in past, the drug industry is larger than ever, and cartel violence is killing countless more kids in the third world than drugs ever killed.

Bearing in mind that TikTok is itself banned in China. ;)

That's not exactly true. China has a firewall which restricts access to the internet at large so you can't use Tiktok or Instagram for that matter in China. Tiktok and Douyin (Tiktok in China) are essentially the same app. Douyin has more features and of course since it's in China, more content control.