Posted on 03/29/2023 9:45:24 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
As congressional Republicans increasingly clamor for a ban on the popular video-sharing app TikTok, at least one is speaking out against the idea: Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky.
In an op-ed for the Louisville Courier Journal, Paul argued that seeking a ban on TikTok was not just bad policy, but bad politics.
"Congressional Republicans have come up with a national strategy to permanently lose elections for a generation," he wrote. According to TikTok, the app now has 150 million active monthly users in the United States.
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Crypto Chinese agent?
I was thinking the same thing a few days ago. This would be like taking crack pipes away from addicts ...
Look, I agree- but that doesn’t make any strategic sense if the Democrats all support this legislation?!
Sorry Rand. That makes ZERO sense
only Dems in strong seats will support it
and only enough to total 218
Republicans as usual, are the stupid party
Well, Kudos to Rand for opposing it...
But I hope someone fully explains to him what is really in the bill, because the things he is arguing against have almost nothing to do with what it will actually do if it becomes law.
paul consistently stands up for individual liberty
and
business insider is a left wing rag
The “loss” of Tik-Tok means nothing to me.
Shut the CCP down.
Defending a Chinese app that may be a spying app is not defending liberty.
I think better engagement would be a age requirement for ALL social media (minimum of 16), but how you would regulate this by mandating age...is beyond me.
The GOPee is already done as an election force.
The country is in its present state precisely because things are done to benefit politicians and not the country. His reasoning rings hollow.
This is a damned if you do or damned if you don’t situation.
If you ban Tik Tok, you tick off lots of young people. Most of those young people however, that frequent Tik Tok, wouldn’t vote Pub anyway because 1) they are mindless; 2) they are brainwashed already; 3) they are young and know nothing of the world and those in it that are evil; and 4) they are well on the way to being totalitarian little socialist twits (Mao’s red gangs or Hitler’s brown shirts come to mind) themselves. The votes we will lose I maintain, are ones we most likely wouldn’t get anyway. The properly raised young people won’t be swayed by Tik Tok’s allures in the first place.
On the other hand, if you go ahead with the ban, the Dems will be deprived of young eyeballs, and the news propaganda and the less than subtle brainwashing that would be posted by the Dems continually between now and the 2024 election. It will thus remain unseen. Dems would be deprived of the Tik Tok platform to spew out their political lies and deceptions to further poison our young people’s minds with, which will be a good thing.
I’m for banning Tik Tok. The youth on it are really not our base, and our voters will come from venues other than those who mindlessly waste their lives away on Tik Tok.
The choice as I see it: do you want our youth to be brainwashed and polluted by the Chinese or by the Dems. If Tik Tok is not banned, our youth will be polluted by both. If banned, the young will be polluted by neither, with a risk I maintain, that is slight of youth not voting for Pubs, as most of them wouldn’t vote for Pubs anyway, or won’t vote at all. I suspect it will be no great loss.
Rand Paul, whom I like is, after all, a true Libertarian at heart, and doesn’t see the dangers of Tik Tok through the lens that most Conservatives do. Tik Tok is a dangerous foreign entity, and will, through the Tik Tok medium, continue the corruption of our youth already begun early in their education by the liberal brainwashing permeating our public school educational system in the U.S.
Oh, just do what the Chicoms do. Make Tik-Tok US 51% owned by Americans.
Maybe TikTok is how GOP wins their elections somehow interfering with the way the Dems steal elections, given that this was initiated by Dems.
Spy Tok seems the least of our worries. The issue feels like a “Look - a squirrel!!” distraction to me....
You’re saying you think Dem voters are rational in how they approach things?
With this record, why should I care if the GOP won elections? We need a new party, we need a MAGA party. To hell with the GOPe Democrat Enablers.
Not to worry Senator Paul, with or without TicToc, I really believe the GOP is slated to “permanently lose elections for a generation,”.
Because of their own perfidy and nothing else.
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