By skyforbes 
How do we live ethically with technology that isn’t always ethical?
A few months ago, I had the chance to travel to Kazakhstan to participate in a TikTok event. It was an exciting opportunity — not just because of the event itself, but because it brought people together from Central Asia. I met someone from Uzbekistan, and our conversation quickly shifted to something deeper: the fact that TikTok was banned in his country.
My first reaction was immediate:
“I don’t think it’s right to ban something at a country level.”
Even though I had already deleted TikTok from my own phone at that time, the idea of a government deciding what people could or could not access felt wrong to me.
I believed — and still do — that human beings need the freedom to make critical choices for themselves. Maybe governments can help educate and warn people about risks, but completely banning something?
It just didn’t sit well with me.
But that conversation stayed in my head.
Over the next few months, I started to think more critically about it — not just about TikTok, but about the entire system of social media.