Posted on 03/08/2024 10:41:31 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
House Republican leadership is moving forward with a vote on a bipartisan bill that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok — or face a ban — next Wednesday, despite former President Donald Trump’s public opposition to the measure.
House Republican leaders huddled Friday morning to confirm the House would move forward on the TikTok bill with plans to bring it to the House floor under suspension, a maneuver that speeds the process and limits amendments to bills that can win a two-thirds majority vote, according to two sources familiar with the plans.
The legislation from Reps. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis. and Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., the leaders of the House Select Committee on China, would force Beijing-based ByteDance to sell off TikTok within 180 days or otherwise would effectively ban the app in the U.S. by penalizing app stores that host it.
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“Unenforceable without also making VPNs illegal. Which would hurt banks, so it won’t happen.
So yet another unenforceable regulation. “
Which they will indeed do along with banning encryption. EXCEPT for approved domains who have had a background check and buy a license from the government.
This is just another step towards the total control of the internet just like China. Fighting China with like kind Chinese style internet control.
And we are actually begging for it... Real intelligent...
The CCP don’t want you as consumers, they want you and your children as their slaves. That has always been their goal.
Freerepublic is not owned by a foreign government who has demonstrated both intention and ability in meddle in our election process.
All this bill does is force them to severe their ties with their parent company ByteDance out of China. The ban is just the hammer that says we will do this to you if they don’t comply with that order.
Now comes the interesting part. If TikTok and ByteDance were normal companies doing normal businesses, when a law like this passes they will of course comply, and ByteDance will sell because they will get a payoff, and if they insist on fighting the order and gets banned, they will get nothing. No normal business would make a choice.
But I predict ByteDance will fight tooth and nail, and will not comply, and will risk getting banned instead of agreeing to a sale. Why? Because the entire value of TikTok to ByteDance is not financial, but the power and control it offers the CCP, so their CCP masters will risk losing the money to hold on to the power. They will play a game of chicken with the US and hope its millions of addicted users in the US will find a way to scare the politicians off when it comes to actually banning them outright. And that’s how you’ll know what they really are.
Then you agree with banning FACEBOOk, INSTAGRAM, X,., The MEDIA websites, The WEATHER websites,GOOGLE in general, Every website on the INTERNET ???? Because they all gather your info and sell it.
AND ...they lie to you about gathering and selling your info. At least TIK TOK admits they do so.
I am not an advocate of TIK TOK. I have never accessed it. BUT, I want the decision of whether to use it to be UP TO ME.
Are you prepared to divest yourself of any Chinese products ?????
Name one thing, other than your house, that was manufactured in the US.
“Freerepublic is not owned by a foreign government who has demonstrated both intention and ability in meddle in our election process.”
No but it is owned by what they have now considered as enemies of the state, a Conservative and Christian. And once this door is opened, anything and everything they deem as an enemy of the state will be on the chopping block. Twitter, Gab, Truth Social, Rumble, the FR and a hundred like the FR. They WILL NOT stop at just TikTok. It will expand to every domain they feel is a threat to their Communist agenda. Then they will go after the domain hosting providers to make sure these domains are shut down.
“The ban is just the hammer that says we will do this to you if they don’t comply with that order.”
Which will afterwards be anyone who does not bow to their selective control over the internet. You place far too much trust in what they claim it will be limited to. Give them an inch and they will indeed take a mile. Have we not learned this yet? Really?
How , exactly, would WE do that ????? Feel free to explain in complete detail. There is no character limit on FR posts.
“I want the decision of whether to use it to be UP TO ME.”
Absolutely. And those government officials who might get doxxed can only blame themselves. They DO HAVE THE OPTION TO NOT USE IT. We do not need government to give everyone an intervention.
And the “For the Children” excuse is BS. Every device made for the last 20 years has built in parental controls just waiting to be set up to limit the internet experience of minors.
Name one ROCK SOLID MAJOR source in the US media,
Their media is just like ours. If reporting on foreign issues, most likely it is truthful. If reporting on their OWN national issues, it is most likely lies.
Where did you get that slice of misinformation? Or did you make it up ?
China can't feed it's own people, why would they want slaves to have to feed and house ?
If you are truly a truth searcher, quit accepting the lies you are told that keep you worried about some imaginary hobgoblin as a way to keep you from noticing who really has you in slave chains.
It reminds me of the Monty Python sketch called ARGUMENT CLINIC.
“The CCP don’t want you as consumers, they want you and your children as their slaves. That has always been their goal.”
This is exactly what OUR OWN GOVERNMENT WANTS AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN THEIR GOAL.
I’m thinking DJT wants to keep Tik Tok around at least until after the National Election.
We must stop the Trojan Horse.
We must stop the Trojan Horse.
Honestly, you just don’t know enough about them if you don’t understand the threat they pose.
That’s not to say Facebook, Zuckerberg, etc aren’t also a problem that we need to address. Running to the CCP to save us from Zuckerberg, though, is just a disastrously bad idea.
“We must stop the Trojan Horse.”
At least stop begging for, supporting, and helping drag it in the gates for our own self destruction. I wonder why it is so hard for folks to realize they are being manipulated and played as the fool?
The truth has emerged...a billion-dollar TikTok investor is a donor and visited Mar-a-Lago last week.
Trump Meets TikTok Investor, Suddenly Doesn’t Want to Ban It
" One American who does not share this goal is Jeff Yass, a conservative hedge-fund manager who has a $33 billion stake in TikTok and has reportedly threatened to cut off funding to Republicans who support the divestment bill.
Last week, Yass visited Mar-a-Lago, where Trump praised him as “fantastic,” and media reports touted that Yass could potentially contribute generously to Trump’s campaign."
Sounds exactly like Trump's about face on Bud Light.
This seems like the right approach .
PRC is too tied up with ByteDance.
Additionally, is American user data kept in servers in US? Or in PRC?
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