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https://sashastone.substack.com/p/the-proposed-ban-on-tiktok-is-election

By now, the CIA, the FBI, and the Democrats are waking up to the reality of life without their precious blue-checks on Twitter. They can’t control the media narrative to boost Biden and sink Trump as they did in 2020. There’s no COVID. Biden has no choice but to get out there and campaign.

The Biden administration has been using TikTok throughout Biden’s first term. It was their strategy to mobilize young voters. That’s why they invited the transgender influencers to the White House. Remember that?

And why Dylan Mulvaney interviewed with Biden just before the 2022 midterms. Remember that?

Team Biden invested most of its money and energy in TikTok and even set up its headquarters there.

So why a ban? Why now? Because suddenly, they’re shocked SHOCKED that the CCP has so much control over the very same American youth Biden has been courting?

If you believe that, you are a fool.

All politicians are opportunists. The problem for Biden is that he’s a dud on TikTok like he’s a dud on Youtube and X. Maybe there are enough liberal women on Facebook who still fangirl over him, like I used to, but the youth he so desperately needs to win are bored.

Not to mention how the #freepalestine crowd has gone viral on TikTok, and they’re all starting to turn on Biden. In short, it’s been a failed effort at best and a total disaster at worst. ...

By contrast, Trump is surprisingly popular on TikTok. Young minds and neutral parties do not get their news from legacy media anymore and, thus, can now see a completely different version of Trump. It will just drop into their “for you” page, and maybe they will see something that makes them laugh. Imagine how threatening that might be to their carefully constructed narrative of Trump.

There are only two possibilities for the Republicans to go along with a TikTok ban. The first, they’re Luddites who don’t understand the free speech issue involved in silencing hundreds of millions of Americans. Second, they were played by the Democrats.

Banning TikTok, they say, isn’t censorship, but how can it not be? Here are Tucker Carlson and Rand Paul wondering the same thing...

That is a lack of control over the message the Democrats cannot afford. They must find a way to shape opinion, even if - especially if - it means censorship. Just like China! ...

They’ve already shown us that they will stop at nothing to take down Trump. We’ve watched them destroy themselves in the process. But this ban is exactly what Amazon did to Parler - a popular competitor to Twitter - when they dropped them from their servers, and all Big Tech giants refused to host them. That was for the protection of United States citizens too. But it was wrong. Have we all forgotten that?

What is this but exactly that same abuse of power, taking away the voices of the people, their free speech, and their main method of communicating with each other, and putting the power back into the hands of a lying, corrupt legacy press? ...

It’s probably not easy for people on the Left to watch their empire collapse, but collapse it will. The reason for that is the rising counterculture revolution.

Speech, like information, like truth, wants to be free. When you close off too much reality, too much honesty, too much critical thinking, and push a narrative on the public that no longer resonates, it’s all over but the shouting.

Milan Kundera says it best in the Book of Laughter and Forgetting:




And so it goes with the empire. They gripped too tight. They held on too long and now, there is no way to save them from their ultimate fate.

TikTok is in their crosshairs for one reason and one reason only: it is making Trump too popular. And for that, it must go.

NuttBoxer says

A simple statistical breakdown and analysis of recent comments shows exactly who's behind this bill:
https://twitter.com/CensoredMen/status/1767942615910039761

Yep, China. Pushing the gender bending/queer, LGBTQ+, BLM, Woke, and of course Pro Hamas shit. The statistical analysis only gave the fact that half of all Tiktok users were under 30. There were no statistics supporting his DAJOOS take.

AmericanKulak says

Yep, China.

NO.

It's not Putin, and it's not Bashi al-Assad, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Osama bin Laden, Muammar Qaddafi either. It's our government that is pushing this 2SLGBTQ+ nonsense and they aren't banning TikTok over that. They don't care about that. It's pushed on television, YouTube and Facebook, no complaints about that.

The problem is, that the US security state does't 100% control TikToc and that's not acceptable. They 100% control Facebook, and Google, and probably Twitter. We will see, if they don't 100% control Twitter, they will be the next target.

richwicks says

The problem is, that the US security state does't 100% control TikToc and that's not acceptable. They 100% control Facebook, and Google, and probably Twitter. We will see, if they don't 100% control Twitter, they will be the next target.

Facebook and Google don't have shit on me and neither does the government. Their algorithms cannot even compute my crazy brain. I'm surprised you guys don't do searches to throw it off. I don't even want to mention some of the extreme edgy searches I do on google. Anyone that has my full data would give up. Like what the fuck is up with this guy. I do NOTHING illegal. They'd be confused.

I try to do an insane search everyday on google. Stupid shit like "Is my dog a pedophile if it licks my kid" Fuck with their algorithms, it's fun. And I secretly think some of the employees see it and laugh. Instead of avoid it, fuck with their data. If 20% of people fucked with them they'd lose their ad revenue.

As long as you don't actively search and store anything you search, it screws them up bigly. I'd love to see a Congressional hearing on google horse fucking searches. They're so stupid they'd look into it. "Oh the horses..." It's the protest in the middle of the highway. We need to get more people on board.

RWSGFY says

Throw some random shit on a picture and voila - we've got ourselves a "meme".

I thought that was a pretty good meme, ie funny and makes a valid point.