If TikTok Has To Go. So Should Facebook, Google, Bing, Amazon Etc! What’s The Real Security Threat?
We’re hearing more and more cry’s to ban the use of TikTok in America outright. The U.S. Government has recently passed legislation to ban TikTok on all government devices. Some States in our union are following suit with regards to state and local government issued devices.
Actually, I don’t have a problem with any government issued devices for work purposes not being able to download any Social Media apps, especially if it’s not for work purposes. But the only focus seems to be Communist China’s TikTok, because the U.S. Government dating back to the Trump administration, has deemed it a national security threat. To your average red blooded, pro American citizen. Communist China is indeed our number one geopolitical enemy in the world. So why would anyone object to the proposed ban of this Social Media app in America?
Why is it a national security threat? And not just a national security threat to the government. Why are many pushing for an outright ban of the popular Social Media app?
According to the U.S. Government. Communist China is using TikTok to gather data from the device it’s installed on. That’s why I’m not against a ban of the app on all government devices at every level. The claim is that TikTok can access your personal information, listen to you, track you, copy your every key stroke compromising passwords to every account and app on your phone. They’re saying too many Americans are spending too much time on TikTok which has been deemed unhealthy physically, mentally and emotionally. They’re saying there’s algorithms in TikTok specifically promoting content that is very dangerous to the psyche of those being exposed to TikTok content on a daily basis.
Again. I’m all for the Communist China TikTok being banned on all government devices at every level of government because of the national security threats and concerns.
But when I started hearing all these reasons as to why TikTok should be BANNED OUTRIGHT. I said to myself, “Doesn’t all of that apply to dam-near every app... especially Social Media apps we install on our phones?” Weren’t there Congressional Hearings regarding privacy and safety concerns with Facebook? Wasn’t Mark Zuckerberg allowed to danced the proverbial jig while testifying, tap dancing around every serious question about privacy and safety concerns?
Have you ever had a conversation with someone or you were just at home watching TV, then you opened you Facebook or went to Google, and mysteriously ads popped up about what you were literally talking about or watching on TV? It happens to me and my wife all the time! We could be the car driving having a conversation, and one of our phones would answer a question one of us asked, or one of our phones would say “Repeat that”. I kid you not. And this was before either of us even thought about having a TikTok. If you have an Amazon ‘Alexa’ device in your home. Jeff Bezos probably knows every intimate secret about you, because ‘Alexa’ is listening to everything going on in your home. ‘Alexa’ is gathering and storing that data for Amazon. We can apply all these concerns to Facebook, Google, Bing etc, every time someone download their app into a device!
As far as the psychological and emotional affects from Social Media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok etc. I doubt any of them are less hazardous than the other. There were actual hearings in Congress about the mental and emotional affects of Facebook, and how the algorithms were literally designed to target young people so they would become addicted to the platform. People have committed suicide because of Facebook. I know that sounds absurd and crazy, but it really happened and still happens. Depression is a serious mental illness. Top that illness off with bullying, and or a feeling of rejection on Social Media. And you have the ultimate recipe for suicidal thoughts resulting in actual suicide.
Congress had all these concerns about privacy and the psychological affects from using the Social Media platform Facebook. But I didn’t hear any calls to outright ban Facebook, let alone a ban on all government devices. Why? There’s still privacy issues with Facebook. Facebook is still gathering all the data it can from your phone. Facebook is still listening to you through your phone etc. And Facebook has 3 BILLION active account users.
I’m hard pressed to find any goods in America that aren’t made in Communist China! The Apple iPhone I’m using to type this up at this very moment was made in Communist China! The Democrats passed a bill this year regarding green energy that will make us dependent on Communists China’s Solar Panel and Wind Turbine manufacturing industry! Communist China is stealing our intellectual properties and technology every chance they get! Communist China is buying up hundreds-of-thousands of acres of farmland across America! Communist China is flooding our country with poisonous Fentanyl that’s killing Americans by the tens-of-thousands per year! We have Communist China, satellite Police Departments in America!
I can go on and on about the national security threats and the evil that Communist China is to America and American citizens. BUT TIKTOK IS THE MAJOR SECURITY THREAT AND SHOULD BE BANNED OUTRIGHT IN AMERICA?
For the last time. I’m not against TikTok being banned on government issued devices at every level of government. I understand those security concerns. But when I hear talks about an outright ban in America when there’s literally the same security and social-safety concerns with almost every Social Media app downloaded into our phones. I can’t help but think it’s something else that the real threat is? And I think the real threat is financial independence from government.
I believe that, within our government there people who despise the “underclass” whenever there’s an easy opportunity for the peasants to make more wealth for themselves changing the class structure in America. People are making TONS OF MONEY doing TikToks all day, instead of actually working and killing them selves to make ends meet, in search of what’s known as the “American Dream”. TikTok ‘Content Creators’ are living beyond the American Dream. Many of these ‘Content Creators’ were the underclass. That underclass is made up of every gender, race, ethnicity and pigment there is.
New wealth and less dependency on government. That’s what I feel is the real national security threat in America happening with TikTok, despite their pandering for “equity” and “income equality”. Income equality only creates SOCIALISM! In Socialism you have two social class. THE HAVES AND THE HAVE-NOTS... no in between!
There’s no version of our TikTok in China. Their version is called ‘Douyin’. It’s not even close to our version of TikTok as far as the algorithms, becoming a ‘Content Creator’ and monetizing your account. The CCP controls every aspect of ‘Douyin’. I just find it both ironic and a shame, that this new found wealth in America is happening with the use of a Communist China based, Social Media app known as TikTok. It’s such an oxymoron fundamentally with regards to Communists China.
Quote Of The Post.
“The upper class always needs an underclass to maintain absolute control and power.” - Shawn From Queens