I'll refer you back to my original comment:

> I think the implication was that it didn't have to be on tiktok. it's a choice that people make. the phone doesn't force them. rejecting the phone entirely isn't some form of virtue or moral purity.

arguing semantics

in this particular context "rejecting the phone" means "rejecting tiktok"

no one was concerned about the phone if the vast majority of users were reading books on it

I get the impression you just didn't read it properly and are now digging in your heels.

If "the vast majority of users" could "reject the phone", then they could also "reject tiktok".