Posted on 03/29/2023 4:32:44 AM PDT by FarCenter
Failure to singularly address tic-toc in legislation is further proof of the extent to which China owns American politicians…
Republicans are stupid for bringing it up this way.
Bring in app programmers and ask them about Tiktok copying and pasting content and returning it to China.
Ask them about how the app reconfigures itself to hide what its doing.
Ask about Chinese app makers and how they’re all beholden to Chinese intelligence.
Then make the point that American apps are as well, but we don’t need TWO eyes looking at everything we do.
The Restrict Act (TikTok Bill): Another Trojan Horse of Governmental Surveillance
Asterisks mine.
Mises Caucus
@LPMisesCaucus
The RESTRICT Act is not limited to just TikTok. It gives the government authority over all forms of communication domestic or abroad and grants powers to “enforce any mitigation measure to address any risk” to national security now and in any “potential future transaction”
6:18 AM · Mar 26, 2023
“The rudeness of the congresspeople was an embarrassment to American society and political system.”
Bite me.
When politicians from both sides of the aisle team up. It should cause alarm for everyone.
The last thing politicians want is free, unfettered communications among the electorate.
“The word ‘bipartisan’ means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.” - George Carlin
Michael Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
“By conflating the anti-establishment politics of domestic populists with acts of war by foreign enemies, it justified turning weapons of war against Americans citizens. It turned the public arenas where social and political life take place into surveillance traps and targets for mass psychological operations. The crime is the routine violation of Americans’ rights by unelected officials who secretly control what individuals can think and say.”
8:42 PM · Mar 28, 2023
Another example of why the 17th Amendment needs to be repealed.. the uniparty and its masters on full display
Q: Why did FNC allow Carlson to discuss it?
The whole thing is a farce. Instagram, Facebook, Google etc all strip mine your activity for the US government, feed you mind rotting content, and do everything they accuse TikTok of.
The actual problem with TikTok is that it rapidly passed Zuckerbergs Instagram and left it in the dust. Zuckerberg called his bought and paid for congressmen to do something.
This is the same guy who spent 500 million in election throwing bribery money in the 2020 election.
DC is lying again.
The key to making democracy work is the ability of the political class to influence the electorate to vote between strictly limited choices.
Print, the “press” of the constitution, was an enabler of democracy because only those who owned printing presses and bought ink by the barrel could influence the masses. They could generally be co-opted into colluding with the political class, even when they weren’t already part of it.
Broadcast radio and TV were also controllable via licensing and the investment required to operate stations and networks.
On the other hand, the Internet is a real threat to democracy.
What’s funny is Twitter had a Tiktok style app, Vine, and shut it down as unprofitable before Tiktok got popular.
Deep State is the real threat.
The US has always been run by the Deep State. The Founding Fathers were the beginning of the Deep State. They quickly divided into two parties in order to control the “Overton Window”. The Civil War was a schism of the Deep State. The Deep State is an essential feature of US democracy.
150 million Tiktok users in the United States.
So, just under half (roughly 45%) of the US has TikTok on their phones?
Egads, no wonder there’s no OpSec anywhere anymore.
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