Then-President Trump tried to outright ban TikTok in 2020, but a federal judge shot down the effort.
"TikTok automatically captures vast swaths of information from its users, including Internet and other network activity information such as location data and browsing and search histories," Trump's executive order explained. "This data collection threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans’ personal and proprietary information — potentially allowing China to track the locations of Federal employees and contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage."
Trump is not alone. During Wednesday's Republican debate, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley said, "We really do need to ban TikTok once and for all, and let me tell you why. For every 30 minutes that someone watches TikTok every day they become 17% more antisemitic, more pro-Hamas based on doing that."
Then there's Vivek Ramaswamy, who tweeted earlier this year, "And yes, I’m very open to banning TikTok outright. In the meantime, we sit on our hands and do nothing as kids get addicted to it like it’s digital fentanyl." (FYI, the young hypocrite is campaigning on TikTok as we speak.)
Chris Christie said last month, "In my first week as president, we would ban TikTok."
GOOD LUCK WITH THAT
Ron DeSantis is the only GOP candidate with a more measured approach.
“I am inclined to not want TikTok in the United States,” he told The Wall Street Journal. “I think it’s creating a security vulnerability for us. I think they are mining a lot of data.”
However, he stopped short of an outright ban. “At the end of the day, I don’t want Big Brother to be getting into everybody’s apps,” DeSantis told the Journal. “It’s about vulnerabilities to our country.” The Florida governor banned the use of TikTok on government and school servers and devices last year.
Again, there are dangers to TikTok, but an outright ban right now, when it’s at the height of its popularity, would send Gen-Z voters into the streets, rending their garments and protesting the loss of their favorite mind-numbing entertainment platform. Is that really a winning message?
Drama I don’t need to hear.
“”””young voters tend to live in the here and now — they want their student loans forgiven, they want cheaper homes, they want everything handed to them on a silver platter””””
Previous young generations were more noble and thought about what was good for America rather than what they could take for themselves with the vote.
The Gen Z kids/adults better get cooking on the peace marches, figure out Saul Alinsky and Cloward Piven real fast else it’s over.
PDS maybe also figure out a lot of tax money is going to illegals.
My generation is over for that stuff, here’s the baton. Quit playing games.
Young voters have always been clueless; nothing has changed.
first hand account of a LEFTIST getting smacked in the face
a roommate who claimed to be a moderate but held LEFTIST positions
graduated from college and got his first job
when he opened his first paycheck and saw the net
he said what the hell is this?
to which i exclaimed welcome to the party, pal!
Absolutely not. Rich Baris is going over the latest Emerson poll right now. YOUNGER VOTERS ARE MOVING SHARPLY TOWARD TRUMP.
(Rs trail Trump by 7 points).
Baris: “We haven’t seen these young numbers for an R candidate since 1980 with Reagan.”
Trump currently down just 5 in the 18-30 group. This is shocking. Dems usually win this group by 20.
Baris isn’t JUST looking at Emerson. He has gone through ALL the polls showing this yout shift.