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Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) comes right out and admits it: they're about to ban TikTok because "young people are getting their news" from the app, and "pro-Palestinian" hashtags generate lots of views. He says Chinese Communists are "pushing this racist agenda" to undermine America
Why can't they ever just deal with the facts of a situation? Are the Tik Toks about Gaza wrong? If so, how?
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) defends the TikTok ban in the war funding bill by arguing it's necessary to vest the President with vast new censorship powers in order to protect "vulnerable Americans" from "harmful content" and "blackmail." She says we need a new "Technology NATO"
She's also citing fake data from a fraudulent study to justify her demand for massive government censorship. But it's nothing new. Ted Cruz cited the same fraudulent study in January to demand the TikTok Ban. Glorious bipartisanship in action once more
