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You'll Smash Your Kid's Smartphone After Reading This
PJ Media ^ | NOVEMBER 16, 2023 | STEPHEN GREEN

Posted on 11/16/2023 9:37:09 AM PST by george76

Some of us — weren't even half-joking when we said that if 9/11/2001 had been 9/11/2023, thousands or millions of Americans would take to the streets in support of al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

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Shortly after the 9/11 attacks that left nearly 3,000 dead and permanently altered the New York City skyline, bin Laden wrote his Letter to America, justifying his murderous act of terrorism, in part because of our "support to the oppressive Israelis in their occupation of our Palestine."

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Thousands of young Americans took to TikTok to express how bin Laden's words have opened their eyes.

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One of TikTok's jobs is to provide sensitive data to its Communist Chinese parent company, ByteDance. That's why India banned the app completely and why the U.S. federal government and the New York state government have banned employees from having TikTok on their phones. "China’s Communist Party had 'supreme access' to all data held by TikTok’s parent company Bytedance, including on servers in the United States,

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Arguably worse is TikTok's algorithm.

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The American algorithm takes the fringes of society and parades them around as the new normal. All those self-loathing, America-hating, purple-haired, over-pierced weirdos whose videos I post each week on Insanity Wrap promote themselves on TikTok because TikTok promotes them.

TikTok promotes the bin Laden letter people, who will make their own bin Laden letter videos which TikTok will then also promote. Jewish Insider editor-in-chief Josh Kraushaar reminded his readers of the "scary reality" that "TikTok is the top 'news' source for 18-29-year-olds."

Thanks in part to TikTok, a segment of American youth is moving very quickly from a lame moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas to thinking bin Laden was right to murder 3,000 people on 9/11.

Ban TikTok and ban it now.

(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...


TOPICS: China; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 911; alqaeda; ban; bantiktok; binladen; domesticenemies; osama; osamabinladen; tiktok
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1 posted on 11/16/2023 9:37:09 AM PST by george76
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My 15 year old son has no phone. My 19 year old daughter lives at home, but has almost no data on her $10 plan. I block TikTok at the router.


2 posted on 11/16/2023 9:38:55 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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If you allow generations to grow up and go through public school with lousy (to nonexistent) real education, this is what you get.

We have generations now who don’t know how to THINK. Nobody ever taught them.


3 posted on 11/16/2023 9:41:05 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Dr. Sivana

” My 19 year old daughter lives at home, but has almost no data on her $10 plan. I block TikTok at the router.”

WiFi uses no data.


4 posted on 11/16/2023 9:42:19 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: george76

My latest phone kept pushing Tic TOC ads for months before it finally stopped.


5 posted on 11/16/2023 9:46:14 AM PST by Nateman (If Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then that pedo profiteer comes in second.)
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To: george76

Anti-Zionism *is* anti-Semitism.


6 posted on 11/16/2023 9:47:14 AM PST by Republican in occupied CA (We had enough government in 1789)
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To: Dr. Sivana
The cubs have flips.

I have asked people how kids having access to social media improves their lives and have yet to get a response that is persuasive.

7 posted on 11/16/2023 9:47:43 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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To: Jamestown1630

And the worst part is we took God out of the schools.


8 posted on 11/16/2023 9:49:41 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: george76

I usually consider the Tic Tokers as a bunch of morons who rely on “influencers” to guide them from cradle to grave. Real losers. The original No Brainers when no brainer described those without brains.


9 posted on 11/16/2023 9:51:08 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer ('Build Back Better' is a Bidenskyyyyyyism for 'we gotta get rid of all dem white peoples'.)
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To: george76

TikTok is ChiComm propaganda

anti-America and pro-China every day


10 posted on 11/16/2023 9:51:51 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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Baloney. Tiktok is stiff competition for Zuckerberg and that’s it. It’s a superior product to Facebook and Instagram and is blowing them away in growth, so Zuck called his purchased congressmen and demanded action against his competitor.

When this anti-tiktok movement started last spring, I didn’t know anything about it. So I tried it. I found it to be a superior product and very positive. A session of doomscrolling on X, Instgram or Facebook leaves you agitated and annoyed. TikTok quickly learns what you enjoy and tailors it to your interests. You can click on a post and see less of them in the future.
You like music, Roman history, Jordan Pederson, travel suggestions and Horses... that is what you’ll get.
You like comedy, dog videos, airplanes and accoustic guitar, that is what you’ll get.

The main risk is that you’ll use it too long. It can be as addicting as any other. But a long session of it doesn’t leave you pissed off and in a bad mood like X, or the others. It’s a very good product.

And danger of my data being stolen by China? Make me laugh... I avoid that by sending it to Zuck, San Francisco, Apple, and Google? Please.

The hate on TikTok is because it is not easy for the FBI to get into it and make them do things for DC.


11 posted on 11/16/2023 9:53:26 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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Maybe I’ve been wrong all this time. When you look at the young skulls of much running around trying to run America, abortion might be America’s only hope. A population of pieces of meat with two eyes isn’t any good either.


12 posted on 11/16/2023 9:58:46 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer ('Build Back Better' is a Bidenskyyyyyyism for 'we gotta get rid of all dem white peoples'.)
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Another wonderful feature of Tiktok in the even your teen has it is what is called the TikTok challenge. them open it and select “for you”. Go through ten recommended videos and see what is recommended. That tells you with precision what Junior is looking at.
If a single video of woke crap, porn, atheist pagan crap, drugs etc. appears, THAT is what he is searching for and watching.
But if it’s deer hunting, decent music, how to do guitar chords, Jordan Pederson, and how to pay for college without loans... you can quit worrying.

It serves up a good product, and the best method I have seen for parental control over what they are seeking out.

That’s just a fact. But too many people are being stampeded now into doing Zucks bidding and taking down a tough competitor.


13 posted on 11/16/2023 10:00:17 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: TexasGator
WiFi uses no data.

I know. That's why I mentioned that I block TikTok at the (WiFi) router.
15 posted on 11/16/2023 10:09:18 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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F-iapv-Zas-AAf-FQe
16 posted on 11/16/2023 10:10:20 AM PST by PGR88
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To: DesertRhino

17 posted on 11/16/2023 10:11:18 AM PST by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

“I know. That’s why I mentioned that I block TikTok at the (WiFi) router.”

But her friends and the mall do not block it.


18 posted on 11/16/2023 10:19:39 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: george76

I am just waiting for them to start praising Mein Kampf.


19 posted on 11/16/2023 10:21:24 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy ( Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: gibsonguy

“Wi-Fi uses data but not cellular data and most ISP’s have caps. He is wrong as usual.”

Wifi does not count against your data plan AND most ISP’s do not have data caps.


20 posted on 11/16/2023 10:25:17 AM PST by TexasGator
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