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Are there different languages of video editing? TikTok types worried about the platform being banned in the US suggest there are, and that if the dominant software suite used to edit TikTok videos is banned too, it would be “the book burning of the digital age”. The software in question is called CapCut. It’s said to be easy, intuitive and empowering to use, like a language. Like TikTok itself, it’s distributed and maintained in the cloud by Bytedance, the Chinese company whose US critics say it leaves data doors open for the Chinese state. And like TikTok, its use would be prohibited in the States if Bytedance can’t or won’t sell it and the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act survives legal challenges. So some of those appeals will presumably say the act curbs freedom of speech. There’s another way of looking at this. It might relieve downward pressure on attention spans.