Are you defending TikTok?
I am defending the first amendment. We have free speech in this country.
I am. It’s a great app. Completely superior to Instagram, Facebook or anything else. Including X. It’s completely filled with conservative commentary and videos. My TikTok feed is full of nothing but cool travel ideas, good barbecue ideas, interesting approaches to home projects, a lot of history, a lot of 10 minute clips of very good sermons from preachers I follow. Spending 20 or 30 minutes scrolling through Facebook, or Instagram, or Twitter ex leaves you feeling unhappy, unsatisfied, and anxious. A session on TikTok often leaves you with some thought-provoking nugget that you ponder the rest of the day. I think TikTok is awesome.
The problem with it is there is a mostly foreign owned company, it’s hard for the worms in DC to shake them down for bribes. And it’s hard for the CIA and FBI to go meet with them in their office and demand content be taken down. They sure as hell don’t provide the FBI a desk in their corporate HQ. They have utterly blown away Instagram in numbers of users, and speed of adoption. So Zuckerberg called the congressman he has bribed, and demanded they do something to protect them from a tough competitor.
The idea that DC is making efforts to protect the data of American users is laughable on the face of it. All they care about is all that data is gleaned by so-called American companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, etc. That way the FBI can data mine it easily
Think. I’m not gonna dogpile you. Just think.
This can go sideways fast.