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Biden's TikTok Dilemma
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| Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report. | |
| President Biden's campaign will continue using the popular social media site TikTok, even though the president supported a provision in the military aid bill he recently signed forcing TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, to sell TikTok within 270 days. | |
| If ByteDance does not sell TikTok within the required time, TikTok will be banned in the United States. | |
| Biden's continued use of TikTok to reach the approximately 150 million Americans' TikTok users. | |
| It's not the only example of hypocrisy from politicians who support the TikTok ban. | |
| The TikTok ban was driven by claims that because ByteDance is a Chinese company, TikTok is controlled by the Chinese government and thus is helping the Chinese government collect data on American citizens. | |
| However, the only tie ByteDance has to the Chinese government is via a Chinese government-controlled company that owns a small amount of stock in a separate ByteDance operation. | |
| Furthermore, ByteDance stores its data in an American facility not accessible by the Chinese government. | |
| Just days before passing the TikTok ban, the same Senate that is so concerned about TikTok's alleged violations of Americans' privacy passed the FISA Reauthorization Act. | |
| This bill not only extended existing authorities for warrantless wiretapping and surveillance, it made it easier for government agencies to spy on American citizens. | |
| It did this by requiring anyone with access to a targeted individual's electronic device to cooperate with intelligent agencies. | |
| Supporters of banning TikTok also cited concerns over the site's content moderation policies. | |
| These policies reportedly forbid posting embarrassing to the Chinese government, such as some related to the 1989 Tiananmen Square confrontation or the Free Tibet movement. | |
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TikTok and the Liberty Movement
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| TikTok, the most social media platforms engaged in content moderation. | |
| The TikTok ban was supported by Democrats, including President Biden, who have a history of encouraging some politicians who take sensible positions on U.S. intervention in Ukraine. | |
| Another major reason banning TikTok has strong bipartisan support is that the site is being used by many young people to share information on the Israeli government's action in Gaza. | |
| The head of the Anti-Defamation League was actually caught on tape complaining about the TikTok problem. | |
| This use of TikTok made TikTok a target for the many politicians who think the First Amendment makes an exception for speech critical of Israel. | |
| The silver lining in the TikTok ban is it's waking up more Americans, especially young Americans, to the threat the out-of-control welfare warfare surveillance state poses to their liberty and prosperity. | |
| This provides a great opportunity to spread the ideas of liberty and grow the liberty movement. | |