The TikTok Hoax

We need to consider the implications of the bill that’s being rushed through Congress to ban TikTok—or force its sale to a US buyer. The claim, of course, is that it’s a Chinese spy platform and the US government wants to protect us from spying. No, you didn’t lose your way and end up on The Onion or the Babylon Bee—that’s the claim. Big Brother is really your friend. They want to protect you from any propaganda except their own. And of course, as Davis explains, our Congress critters hope that this will be an easy bit of gaslighting to con the voters in the course of their reinstallment campaigns—China bashing is always popular and is an easy sell. Hey, it was the Chinese who stole our manufacturing base, not our Rulers who gave it away. And, remember the spy balloon!

Expanding on this was The Federalist's Sean Davis, who wrote in a lengthy post on X (quoted at Zerohedge):

Here’s what’s actually going on with the TikTok fight right now.

Deep State toadies are taking advantage of anti-China sentiment to transfer TikTok’s surveillance apparatus from China’s evil surveillance state to the U.S. government’s evil surveillance state.

TikTok isn’t going to be banned, because neither the CCP-run Chinese government nor the CCP-owned U.S. government wants to lose such a valuable tool for spying on Americans and poisoning the minds of their children. Instead, the corrupt U.S. intelligence bureaucracy wants control of TikTok, which is why it included the divestment mandate.

Only a handful of U.S. companies are capable of buying and managing TikTok, and they already function as appendages of the Deep State surveillance apparatus.

It’s not that the U.S. government wants to protect you from spying and data theft and manipulation. If only. No, the people behind the Russian collusion hoax, and the Kavanaugh hoax, and the natural origin COVID hoax, and the illegal warrantless spying, and the forced transing of your children—they want to be the ones spying on you and stealing your data and poisoning the minds of your children.

Those who control the Great Reset need to control information flow. That’s what’s behind this move. Now consider this aspect of the bill:

Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie

The so-called TikTok ban is a trojan horse. The President will be given the power to ban WEB SITES, not just Apps. The person breaking the new law is deemed to be the U.S. (or offshore) INTERNET HOSTING SERVICE or App Store, not the “foreign adversary.” https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20240311/HR%207521%20Updated.pdf

7:17 AM · Mar 12, 2024

The actual language speaks of persons “directed or controlled” by foreign “adversaries”. The POTUS will decide what an “adversary” is as well as who is “directed or controlled.” No doubt persons targetted by the POTUS will be able to appeal such decisions. I’m here to guarantee you this: Only the very rich and very powerful will have a prayer of prevailing on appeal. I will also guarantee you that no court will direct the government to pay legal fees in the unlikely event of a successful appeal.

What else could go wrong with this regime? Well, do you think that special interest groups—groups that contribute either in kind (votes) or in cash—may lobby the POTUS to have certain apps or web sites banned? Maybe this guy is on to something:

Ian Carroll @Cancelcloco

Not only are Zionists trying to buy TikTok now, But the dude who brought the bill is majorly supported by AIPAC In the 2022 election cycle AIPAC was the TOP CONTRIBUTOR to Mike Gallagher’s campaign, giving almost DOUBLE the next highest contributor. Do you see the picture yet?

9:35 PM · Mar 14, 2024

That’s the same Mike Gallagher, by the way, who was one of the only GOPers to stand in the way of impeaching Mayorkas and who was an intel officer in the USMC. As I wrote yesterday:

In the meantime, Israel has ordered its lackeys in our Congress to escalate their war on our constitutional order—and they have dutifully complied:

Megatron @Megatron_ron

NEW:

 Major US Jewish group backs bipartisan bill that could see TikTok banned - The Times of Israel

Jewish Federations of North America says it supports the proposed law due to concerns of antisemitism proliferating on the platform.

One of the most prominent Jewish groups in the country has thrown its support behind a fast-advancing bill that could lead to the massively popular video app TikTok being banned in the United States.

Politicians backing the bill, who include leaders from both parties, have centered their criticism of TikTok on national security concerns related to the app’s Chinese ownership and data collection practices.

Which is pure, cynical gaslighting.

Jewish Federations of North America, representing hundreds of organized Jewish communities, said its support for the bill is rooted in concerns about antisemitism on the platform. The Jewish Federations and the Anti-Defamation League have accused TikTok of allowing antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment to run rampant.

“The single most important issue to our Jewish communities today is the dramatic rise in antisemitism,” JFNA wrote in an official letter to Congress. “Our community understands that social media is a major driver of the drive in antisemitism and that TikTok is the worst offender by far.”

**But understand that anti-Semitism is equated with any criticism of Israel—not hatred of Jews as such. This is a naked attempt by our rulers to shut down public debate and the flow of information.**

Rep. Massie appeared on Redacted with Clayton Morris to talk about this bill and its threat to our constitutional order—Massie shows up at the 3:00 mark:

This is an outstanding 23 minute exchange—do yourself a favor and watch it all. They cover not only many different aspects of the bill—including some that I point out above—but also Free Speech issues more broadly. By the way, Morris goes THERE during the course of the interview:

TM: If you can control what the constituents know about what's going on for instance in the war between Israel and Hamas or in the war between Ukraine and Russia or even in Yemen, then you can control public sentiment. And I suspect very strongly, very strongly, I suspect that our State Department [Israeli occupied or settled territory] saw this [free speech on TikTok] as a threat to the narrative that they want to spoon feed the American people.

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CM: That to me seems the most important piece of this puzzle here—that they don't like what's being posted on Tik Tok about any of these proxy wars that the American government is trying to back and fund. We covered this a little bit last night on the show the number of hash “Free Palestine” posts on Tik Tok is monumentally larger than the “Stand with Israel posts”, and of course you've had the Anti-Defamation League coming out blasting Tick Tok wanting to get it removed, claiming it's one of the greatest threats right now. So that to me stood out. Do do you think that we could point to the Israel connection here as a major piece of this?

TM: Well, Clayton, as you know I'm joining you from the GOP Retreat here in West Virginia at The Greenbrier and our lunchtime speaker is the ambassador from Israel. So every Republican member of the Congress is going to hear an hourlong speech from the ambassador from Israel here at this retreat.

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TM: The reality is the State Department believes that they can control that authority regardless of who the president is, and then they will be able to use this to ban inconvenient information that the American people receive that's counter to the narrative that they're trying to push in all their overseas operations.

CM: Maybe you'll get some clearer answers today during your lunchtime speaker.

TM: (Smiling broadly) Yes, maybe. But listen here, to that point, it's all propaganda. Obviously the ambassador of Israel, when he addresses us today, he's gonna try to ... I mean, man, what a powerful position, to be the keynote speaker at the GOP Retreat. We've got all these other things going on. We've got illegal immigration at the border, we've got inflation, we just finished half of an Omnibus and we're about to do the second half of the Omnibus that's going to spend tens of billions of dollars more than Nancy Pelosi spent--and and that's our keynote speaker. … We need to get our priorities straight here in the GOP and in Congress in general.

I dunno whether this will make you feel better, but I got an email from Heritage this morning supporting the bill. Personally, I call that a clue.