Washington DC TikTok phobia.

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Some USA politicians are terrified by tweens bopping on TikTok. They fear Xi Jinping could arbitrarily compel the omipotent ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok application to provide user data. (But who is @BunnieFog555. She looks five.) In the alternative they say they fear Beijing might exploit TikTok’s content recommendation algorithm as a methodology for targeted propaganda. This would be like China copying U.S. electioneers manipulating elections and nations like the Philippines and both African and South American republics. How? They use American internet company’s data algorithms to win elections or gain favourable outcomes for the U.S. interest.

This article is republished with express written permission of Feminine-Perspective Magazine: On TikTok, American politicians are so old, so out of touch that… By Micheal John, Sat, 08 Apr 2023 07:42:47 GMT

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“To be extremely clear, this legislation is aimed squarely at companies like Kaspersky, Huawei, and TikTok that create systemic risks to the United States’ national security—not at individual users,” say the authors of a Bill to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to review and prohibit certain transactions between persons in the United States and foreign adversaries, and for other purposes. Congress S.686

Under the terms of the bill, someone must be engaged in ‘sabotage or subversion’ of American communications technology products and services, creating ‘catastrophic effects’ on U.S. critical infrastructure, or ‘interfering in, or altering the result’ of a federal election, in order to be eligible for any kind of criminal penalty …

(The real scary people: Mr. Warner (for himself, Mr. Thune, Ms. Baldwin, Mrs. Fischer, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Moran, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Sullivan, Mrs. Gillibrand, Ms. Collins, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Romney, and Mrs. Capito) introduced the  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.)

So, what is a “Foreign Adversary” to the elderly male politicians of the United States? (Besides young Tulsi Gabbard who is a very intelligent Hawaiian woman but apparently an enemy of the state or U.S. asset, likely a running-mate in 2024?) A huge percentage of the global population is the answer.

FOREIGN ADVERSARY. The term “foreign adversary”

(A) means any foreign government or regime, determined by the Secretary, pursuant to sections 3 and 5, to have engaged in a long-term pattern or serious instances of conduct significantly adverse to the national security of the United States or the security and safety of United States persons; and
(B) includes, unless removed by the Secretary pursuant to section 6—

  1.  the People’s Republic of China, including the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region, but somehow not the Republic of China, an island;
  2. the Republic of Cuba;
  3. the Islamic Republic of Iran;
  4. the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea;
  5. the Russian Federation; and
  6. the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela under the regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros.

Factcheck: this is only a small sampling of the countries which see America as a ‘foreign adversary’.

Sen. John Thune, April 7, 2023

“More than two years ago, President Trump recognized that TikTok threatened U.S. national security and moved to ban it, but courts ruled the president lacked authority to do so. TikTok’s close ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and questionable handling of data are reason enough for concern, but various instances have also arisen that confirm our worst fears about its malicious potential. It’s no surprise that many Americans agree that TikTok should be banned. And it’s why I recently introduced bipartisan legislation that would codify President Trump’s forward-looking effort to confront foreign-adversary technologies like TikTok that threaten our national security.”

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