1. According to lawyers representing TikTok users, the app "Clandestinely vacuumed up" vast quantities of private and personally identifiable data that could be used to identify and surveil users

2. A heavy-handed government that wishes to use technology to surveil its own citizens or control the narrative by Curtailing their free speech and expression is not interested in using technology for the good but merely to control, in such scenarios comparisons with the Chinese authoritarian internet are natural.

3. A number of back-formations are words that tend to annoy people who tend to get annoyed by words: burgle (1870) comes from burglar (1541)—and only a year before burglarize arrives on the scene in 1871; Commentate (1794—a 220-year-old upstart, that one) comes from commentator (14th century); surveil (1941) comes from surveillance (1802).