RAND:
“I hope saner minds will reflect on which is more dangerous: videos of teenagers dancing or the precedent of the U.S. government banning speech,” Paul wrote. “For me, it’s an easy answer, I will defend the Bill of Rights against all comers, even, if need be, from members of my own party.”
He added: “If you don’t like TikTok or Facebook or YouTube, don’t use them. But don’t think any interpretation of the Constitution gives you the right to ban them.”
Indeed - the First Amendment protects the right of adversarial foreign governments to spy on the United States.
Hawley is following in the footsteps of the infamous Deep State agent Donald Trump!
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“Paul hit the brakes on Hawley’s proposed bill to ban the platform, arguing it would limit free speech and emulate censorship from the Chinese government.”
Geeze Rand, any comment on the J6 political prisoners?
Ban it on government devices and ban CCP affiliated companies from operating in the USA.
I’d rather have TikTok and Chinese minders than the totalitarian bill from hell that ‘deals with TikTok (one that will be used against American citizens)
Rand is right, again.
It doesn't really have anything to do with TikTok (I was wondering why when I first heard about it why our Senate was turning on their Chinese Masters) What it really is is the complete destruction of privacy and the First amendment.
To boil it down to its essence:
If you use an electronic device to communicate ANYTHING that our rulers (elected, appointed or bureaucrats) don't like, they can throw you in prison for 20 years and fine you $1,000,000.00 WITHOUT TRIAL, without proof.
And "AI" will continuously monitor the entire electronic spectrum for 'wrong-think". What they intend makes what the NSA , FBI. CIA (and Google) have been doing so far look like no more than a milder version of "Mrs. Kravitz" looking out the window at the Steven's house in the old Bewitched tv series.
I trust Rand’s judgement.
Remember that Joseph Stolen killed the Oracle deal to take it over.
This bill, from what we know so far, is far MORE than banning TikTok - it gives the deep-state total control over internet censorship within the USA.
The bill is a stealth coup by the Deep State.
As far as China goes does anybody think they can’t get what they want from American soc. media companies? They may have to work a little harder to hack their servers. Or just pay them.
The bill doesn’t even mention TikTok.
And it gives the power solely to the Executive. Vague as hell.
Rand should have emphasized that.
Rand Paul is a national treasure.
This is another “wolf in sheep’s clothing” bill.
Last night, Jesse Waters had Lindsey Graham on to talk about the dangers of this “anti-TikTok” bill, which Graham co-sponsored. It soon became obvious that Graham had never even read this bill, and even that he was confused about which bill they were talking about. Graham admitted he didn’t understand the bill and said he would have to get back to Watters.
This is not Hawley’s bill.
Poorly written article.
This bill was a total piece of totalitarian crap masked as a blow to TikTok and it would have been ten times worse than the Patriot Act. Thune and the other ass hats can ESAD.