November 18, 2023
Trump was right all along about the dangers of TikTok
By Jack Hellner
It has been obvious for a long time that TikTok is extremely dangerous because communist China clearly controls what is seen on it. It's not only dangerous for us, it is especially dangerous to suggestible children.
Trump knew it in 2020 when he attempted to ban it.
The question is why did it take others so long to understand how dangerous Tiktok is and why was it called a controversial decision. Remember this?
On July 7, 2020, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the government was considering banning TikTok.[26] In response, Sarah Cook, Freedom House's research director for China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, suggested that Trump's proposed TikTok ban may threaten free speech and "set a very problematic precedent" for banning apps in the United States.[27] Patrick Jackson, chief technology officer of privacy company Disconnect, said the app sends an abnormal amount of data—mostly information about the phone—to its server, but there is limited evidence that TikTok shares that data with the Chinese government. He also noted that the amount of collected data was similar to that collected by American-originated social media platforms and was less than that collected by Facebook.[28]
On July 31, 2020, President Donald Trump announced a decision ordering China's ByteDance to divest ownership of the application, and threatened to shut down its U.S. operations through executive action as soon as August 1 if the company did not comply.
Now we are hearing all about how Osama bin Laden has gotten popular among TikTok influencers and their followers, many of whom are too young to remember 9/11.
Could China have had a hand in that?
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/11/trump_was_right_all_along_about_the_dangers_of_chinas_tiktok.html
