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?
Would you allow HitlerTok? StalinTok?