Regardless if you like or hate TikTok, the accusations were always baseless and this ban is just because the government wants to control and filter what news we see on it for their benefit and the benefit of corporations.
There has not been any proof made public of the Chinese influence on TikTok. John Kerry Senator Mitt Romney recently expressed in an interview (trying to find it now, but I heard it online 2 days ago) that the ban on TikTok was to stop the spread of information regarding the Israel attack on Palestine because the government wants the people to support Israel.
There has not been any proof made public of the Chinese influence on TikTok
Have you actually done research into that, or did you just hear it, and it confirmed your bias, so you took it to be true? The executive branch research departments and the GAO/CRS have been putting out reports for months on TikTok’s ability as an influence tool.
You can say “nuh-uh” or “They wanna ban it so people like genocide again,” but it’s objectively true that TikTok can be used as a weapon, and we would be doing the exact same ban if VKontakte or Weibo suddenly became super popular.
I don’t understand exactly what you’re trying to refute. That’s just Blinken saying that the decentralization of media is one of the key drivers of the changes in politics during the past decades. Which is objectively true.
The Congressional Research Service has put out 3 reports in the past year about this, which I can’t link here because they’re PDF files, but you can find by googling “CRS TikTok”.
According to the CRS, Chinese laws require that TikTok Have an internal communist party organization, and by law must have a member put on its Board of Directors by the CCP.
The only one saying anything about TikTok in the video you linked is Romney, who didn’t write the bill, and will soon be retiring, let alone his estrangment from his party, I don’t think he has the influence to be a trustworthy source on why banning TikTok has broad bipartisan support.
I’m sure some of the Republicans may be thinking of things such as Gaza when trying to ban TikTok, but that’s not an explanation for the swathes of democrats who have come out in support, saying that China is their reason.
Yup. By defintion any process that ends in the future is starting now. I think the question isn’t “are we on the curve now?” but rather “When are we expected to see this 3C stuff?”
Unless you consider thinking about it to be part of the process. Or the movement of the universe toward such an event. Such boundaries between cause and effect are arbitrary and exist in the mind, not in reality.
So basically we only get to check one of those predictions within the next ten years.
The 2100 date for 3C is going to take 75 years to test.
When scientists predicted mass starvation in 2000 it was only 25 years out, but by the time that prediction turned out false everyone had basically forgotten the predictions. And that’s just a 25 year gap.
What I’m saying is that there’s zero skin in the game, reputation-wise, for someone making climate predictions 75 years out.
That reasoning, if not the exact words about scientists being wrong, was also used by critics to say climate warning plateaued and no action at all should be taken. Turned out the critics were wrong.
I’ve seen a lot of the classics being brought up: There is no warming, warming is good, it’s not human made, it’s too late anyway, it’s just the weather, there are no ill effects, … So I’ll follow the scientists, they got a lot more right than the critics.
ITT nobody who’s ever been to central booking without food and water for a week bc they give you rotten warm bologna and cheese and milk with a single toilet in the middle of a room with 800 guys. Ivy kids can afford to pay to fix their problems. Boohoo
I don’t think Trump is bright enough to be doing this intentionally, but it’s a win-win for him, politically. If he continues to ignore the order he pays next to nothing (for him) or he attains political martyrdom in the eyes of his cult.
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