I'm not convinced that forcing China to sell TikTok is going to get them out of the app's code. Considering that they wrote it, I'm sure it's riddled with back doors they can use.
Somehow this whole thing seems like a distraction from more important issues.
Tik tok is one of many China related issues, all of which are critical to the US and we the people. Here are a few others that seem to have been forgotten about or pushed to the rear pages: intellectual property, money to colleges for influence and propaganda, spy balloons, agricultural land purchases, photos by tourists of military bases, employment by and relationships with congressmen and senators, recent surge in "asylum" seekers at the southern border, fentanyl production and distribution. Oh, and also medical and other research that produced a certain deadly contagious virus. The point is that all of the above and no doubt other matters that many of know about should be focused by journalists and of course politicians. Tik tok should be banned for all the reasons we have been reading about. And social media and its dangers and harms also need to be more thoroughly examined and possibly better controlled ( no pass for meta, Google etc). Unfortunately our ruling class rarely sees the big picture and rarely stays focused on anything past a few news cycles.
The suicide of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett is very sad.
There is reporting that Boeing made his work environment hostile. If that is true Boeing has deep seated issues, because the aviation industry is built on quality and integrity.
I hope The Free Press will investigate and do a story on this.
One last comment that may seem odd. Wilbur and Orville Wright would have approved of Mr. Barnett's actions. They would never have tolerated shoddy workmanship. Someone should point this out to Mr. Barnett's family, because his integrity puts him in the large group of people who have dedicated their lives to safe, reliable flying.
I don’t read Trump’s comment as a flip flop as much as his attempt to highlight what the critical issue actually is: the inordinate and dangerous control that all these social media platforms have over the information we are “allowed” to see. Being China-owned, Tik Tok has particular and serious issues, but Zuckerberg and friends are doing the same thing. Trump inarticulately was stating that TikTok is just part of the problem...and if FB buys TIkTok, it gets worse. TikTok’s ability to manipulate young people won’t change even if the Chinese don’t own it. That’s Trump’s point.
Next up, Trump now thinks it's totally fine to sell farmland near military installations to the CCP and the diehards in the comments section find a way to justify it.
You can support Trump and still think he's wrong on an issue. It's what you often ask of your political opponents.
And seriously, Oliver, your Top Ten list is all MSM, with just one exception on X about some nonsense on Kristi Noem and cosmetics, but you couldn't spare a mention on the WPATH files? WTF??!! Get your head out of MSM asses.
“Gallagher described his bill as “surgery to remove the cancer at the heart of TikTok,” namely “CCP control of an opaque algorithm that can be used for propaganda purposes.”
I wish Gallagher was as concerned about the opaque algorithms OUR government coerces American tech firms into employing. Call me a cynic, but I can’t help but wonder if congressional flunkies are reflecting the concern of CIA & FBI heads that they can’t control TikTok like they did Google, Facebook and Twitter
If we are going to complain about drugs that have not been vetted properly, my vote is to start with the COVID jabs, which have arguably killed directly at least 10 million people, and permanently wounded a multiple more; all while well managed and funded propaganda campaigns were waged against safe and long studied and vetted medicines like HCQ and Ivermectin, which had the effect of marginalizing and minimizing their use, and which thus also caused many more people to die than would have died if our top "We are the Science" agencies had actually used science.
And it's worth repeating often that COVID was less dangerous than the flu for healthy people under 65, which is to say working age people. No lockdowns were EVER needed. No masks were ever needed. No jabs should have been mandated.
And people dealing pot no more belong in jail than people dealing booze. If anybody does anything stupid while under the influence, fine, tack on an added charge, but I think the DEA needs to be abolished. Let the States regulate themselves. There is no prohibition against drug use in the Constitution, and the 10th Amendment means the Federal government has ZERO say in drug laws.
William F. Buckley Jr. argued this in the 1980's. The War on Drugs was the precursor to the War on Terror that, among other things, got us the Patriot Act and a surveillance state that would have made Orwell's jaw drop.
The answer is no. Democracy is simply a rule of the majority or mob rule. If the majority thinks culling a specific 10% of the population is right, then that becomes legal.
I’m amazed at the number of people that don’t understand this and why the Constitutional Republic is not the same.
Disappointed in Trump’s flip flop , but I know he is in a difficult cash position and selling bonds so he can appeal the despicable multi-million dollar fines f imposed by low-life Democrats. Prefer him over the crook who’s family receives millions laundered through shell corporations for no work.
It sounds more likely that Trump is still salty over FB putting its thumb on the scale last election. I suppose the guy who was stupid enough to invest that much into byte dance may have influenced him but I doubt it. I also highly doubt it would do much to boost FB usage beyond a temporary one. Something new will come out for the youngins.
Hmmmm, are these the regular FP posters seemingly united against a ban on TT?
There should be a full ban, or at the least, a mandate that TikTik utilize the same model in the US that it does for it's citizens. Very limited daily access, based on age.
Who would want to bsn Tik Tok? Meta, Microsoft? Use security as an excuse to destroy the competition. Trump sees the problem, and is warning us. Pluses and minuses but cui bono!
I'm not convinced that forcing China to sell TikTok is going to get them out of the app's code. Considering that they wrote it, I'm sure it's riddled with back doors they can use.
Somehow this whole thing seems like a distraction from more important issues.
Tik tok is one of many China related issues, all of which are critical to the US and we the people. Here are a few others that seem to have been forgotten about or pushed to the rear pages: intellectual property, money to colleges for influence and propaganda, spy balloons, agricultural land purchases, photos by tourists of military bases, employment by and relationships with congressmen and senators, recent surge in "asylum" seekers at the southern border, fentanyl production and distribution. Oh, and also medical and other research that produced a certain deadly contagious virus. The point is that all of the above and no doubt other matters that many of know about should be focused by journalists and of course politicians. Tik tok should be banned for all the reasons we have been reading about. And social media and its dangers and harms also need to be more thoroughly examined and possibly better controlled ( no pass for meta, Google etc). Unfortunately our ruling class rarely sees the big picture and rarely stays focused on anything past a few news cycles.
The suicide of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett is very sad.
There is reporting that Boeing made his work environment hostile. If that is true Boeing has deep seated issues, because the aviation industry is built on quality and integrity.
I hope The Free Press will investigate and do a story on this.
One last comment that may seem odd. Wilbur and Orville Wright would have approved of Mr. Barnett's actions. They would never have tolerated shoddy workmanship. Someone should point this out to Mr. Barnett's family, because his integrity puts him in the large group of people who have dedicated their lives to safe, reliable flying.
I don’t read Trump’s comment as a flip flop as much as his attempt to highlight what the critical issue actually is: the inordinate and dangerous control that all these social media platforms have over the information we are “allowed” to see. Being China-owned, Tik Tok has particular and serious issues, but Zuckerberg and friends are doing the same thing. Trump inarticulately was stating that TikTok is just part of the problem...and if FB buys TIkTok, it gets worse. TikTok’s ability to manipulate young people won’t change even if the Chinese don’t own it. That’s Trump’s point.
For an intelligent discussion of the tik tok matter, instead of just another slam-Trump diatribe from Olly, listen to the latest All-In podcast.
Next up, Trump now thinks it's totally fine to sell farmland near military installations to the CCP and the diehards in the comments section find a way to justify it.
You can support Trump and still think he's wrong on an issue. It's what you often ask of your political opponents.
And seriously, Oliver, your Top Ten list is all MSM, with just one exception on X about some nonsense on Kristi Noem and cosmetics, but you couldn't spare a mention on the WPATH files? WTF??!! Get your head out of MSM asses.
“Gallagher described his bill as “surgery to remove the cancer at the heart of TikTok,” namely “CCP control of an opaque algorithm that can be used for propaganda purposes.”
I wish Gallagher was as concerned about the opaque algorithms OUR government coerces American tech firms into employing. Call me a cynic, but I can’t help but wonder if congressional flunkies are reflecting the concern of CIA & FBI heads that they can’t control TikTok like they did Google, Facebook and Twitter
I do not care about Kate! She has no relevance to my life, so just leave her alone, at least here in TFP. There are more pressing issues to deal with.
If we are going to complain about drugs that have not been vetted properly, my vote is to start with the COVID jabs, which have arguably killed directly at least 10 million people, and permanently wounded a multiple more; all while well managed and funded propaganda campaigns were waged against safe and long studied and vetted medicines like HCQ and Ivermectin, which had the effect of marginalizing and minimizing their use, and which thus also caused many more people to die than would have died if our top "We are the Science" agencies had actually used science.
And it's worth repeating often that COVID was less dangerous than the flu for healthy people under 65, which is to say working age people. No lockdowns were EVER needed. No masks were ever needed. No jabs should have been mandated.
And people dealing pot no more belong in jail than people dealing booze. If anybody does anything stupid while under the influence, fine, tack on an added charge, but I think the DEA needs to be abolished. Let the States regulate themselves. There is no prohibition against drug use in the Constitution, and the 10th Amendment means the Federal government has ZERO say in drug laws.
William F. Buckley Jr. argued this in the 1980's. The War on Drugs was the precursor to the War on Terror that, among other things, got us the Patriot Act and a surveillance state that would have made Orwell's jaw drop.
“Democracy is the greatest form of government,”?
The answer is no. Democracy is simply a rule of the majority or mob rule. If the majority thinks culling a specific 10% of the population is right, then that becomes legal.
I’m amazed at the number of people that don’t understand this and why the Constitutional Republic is not the same.
Banality wrapped up in an anti-Trump screed. Sic semper Wiseman.
We subscribed for Bari. We get force fed doses of Ollie like the fish oil our grandmothers forced on us. Gag.
Disappointed in Trump’s flip flop , but I know he is in a difficult cash position and selling bonds so he can appeal the despicable multi-million dollar fines f imposed by low-life Democrats. Prefer him over the crook who’s family receives millions laundered through shell corporations for no work.
It sounds more likely that Trump is still salty over FB putting its thumb on the scale last election. I suppose the guy who was stupid enough to invest that much into byte dance may have influenced him but I doubt it. I also highly doubt it would do much to boost FB usage beyond a temporary one. Something new will come out for the youngins.
Personally I wish we could be rid of them all.
Hmmmm, are these the regular FP posters seemingly united against a ban on TT?
There should be a full ban, or at the least, a mandate that TikTik utilize the same model in the US that it does for it's citizens. Very limited daily access, based on age.
Who would want to bsn Tik Tok? Meta, Microsoft? Use security as an excuse to destroy the competition. Trump sees the problem, and is warning us. Pluses and minuses but cui bono!