Posted on 11/18/2023 2:41:14 PM PST by NoLibZone
It has been obvious for a long time that TikTok is extremely dangerous because communist China clearly controls what is seen on it. It's not only dangerous for us, it is especially dangerous to suggestible children.
Trump knew it in 2020 when he attempted to ban it.
The question is why did it take others so long to understand how dangerous Tiktok is and why was it called a controversial decision. Remember this?
On July 31, 2020, President Donald Trump announced a decision ordering China's ByteDance to divest ownership of the application, and threatened to shut down its U.S. operations through executive action as soon as August 1 if the company did not comply.
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“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”
Parents who allow access to this crap by their children need to be charged with child abuse.
The writer had me at “Trump was right...”
Was THIS what Hannity was talking about when he used to say ‘TICK TOK’ was he really saying ‘TIK TOK’? Did he not know the problems?
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 acoustic 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.
Trump is a stable genius.
I'm not addicted. I can quit anytime I want. I just never want to quit it. I love it and keep it close at all times. I sleep with it. I check it when I wake up.I carry it all throughout the day. It's my friend. It will never let me down. But I'm definitely not addicted.
Another wonderful feature of Tiktok in the event your teen has it is what is called the TikTok challenge. Have them open it and select “for you”. Go through the first 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. Try to easily find your kid’s watch history on Instagram or X.
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.
One man’s information is another man’s propaganda.
You don’t want government deciding which is which.
Zuck, Apple and Google need quality competition suppressed by their government minion Congressmen they paid for... simple as that.
I’m sure tik tok is just as lame as every other social media platform but it doesn’t have a back door for the fbi to spy on its users. Now it’s just the Chinese spying on its user’s sick dance moves
Well, I could say the same for FR.
FR is different. It’s not made by and supporting Communist China. Besides, I can’t live without FR.
Make sure your data is safe. Make sure it only goes to Facebook, Instagram and X. As Nikki Haley reminds us... “it’s a national security issue”.
China restricts the internet inside China, we need to be secure like them I guess.
First thing Biden did was lift Trump ban on TikTok and other Chicom apps.
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Biden drops Trump attempt to ban TikTok, WeChat; orders new review
June 9 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday withdrew a series of Trump-era executive orders that sought to ban new downloads of WeChat and TikTok, and ordered a Commerce Department review of security concerns posed by those apps and others.
The administration of former President Donald Trump had attempted to block new users from downloading the apps and ban other technical transactions that Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok and WeChat both said would effectively block the apps’ use in the United States.
X formerly known as Twitter seems be a close second. And it’s made in the USA.
I’ll offer a simpler solution-any parent who gives their kid under 17-18 an unrestricted cellphone, or lets them go online without some supervision is an idiot and should be required to attend parenting classes. I don’t know where in the state you live, but in this rural area parents make it a point to keep the kids away from outside/online influence they don’t think are safe-city people think they are too strict, but no one out here does...
Tik Tok should be an adults-only app/site-I’m fine with that...
Which is why he helped to arrange the Oracle takeover that Joseph Stolen eventually terminated.
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