Conservative Defense of TikTok
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Conservative Defense of TikTok against the proposed ban or forced sale of TikTok by President Biden, a candidate for the president in 2024, include the following:
- As posted by Tulsi Gabbard about the proposed legislation to regulate TikTok:
“ | The Restrict Act not only bans Americans from using TikTok, it is a Patriot Act 2.0 for the Internet. It would give the govt unfettered access to all the data on our computers, phones, security cameras, internet browsing history, payment applications and more. It throws the Freedom of Information Act out the window, cannot be challenged in court, and criminalizes the use of a VPN with up to 20 years in jail and $1M fine.[1] | ” |
- TikTok attracts liberals (particularly those who present themselves as self-professed "social media influencers") who make fools of themselves in videos, when they think they are persuading someone but have the opposite effect. An entire social media personality, Libs of TikTok,[2] gained massive traction and attention for reposting embarrassing content by neo-Marxists and showcasing their stupidity. Libs of TikTok has 3 million followers on X.
- TikTok, according to its CEO, is used by roughly half of the U.S. population, and the "bipartisan" show trial is nothing short of a statist, anti-democratic power grab antithetical to freedom of conscience and individual liberty.[3] Blaming the platform for excessive harmful content created by a minority of its users, as is the argument employed by numerous U.S. representatives, is grounded in as little sense as advocating the shutdown of Coca-Cola for incidents of diabetes.
- The timing of Biden's 180-degree shift to seek to ban TikTok, after initially courting it, suggests that Dems see an erosion of their control of young voters due to TikTok.[4]
- TikTok is free of the liberal censorship imposed by Facebook, Google, and other Silicon Valley Big Tech to tilt elections to Dems.
- TikTok is freedom of speech, which Joe Biden as a candidate for president should not be allowed to use governmental power to ban.
- TikTok includes many charming or humorous videos about everyday family life, while nothing charming or funny about working for a company.
- TikTok has more appeal to masculinity than other social media, television, and Hollywood. TikTok pokes gentle humor at women in many videos, unlike liberal media that only mocks men.
- Biden's call to shut down TikTok eerily parallels Dems' demand for gun control, and the analogy is that both TikTok and the Second Amendment stand against tyranny.
- TikTok could expose the election fraud perpetrated by Dropbox Dems in swing states, as homemade videos can be posted in TikTok unlike liberal-controlled social media.
- TikTok is pro-motherhood in many of its popular videos, unlike Twitter and Google.
- TikTok is pro-life by featuring cute infant videos, and containing nothing popular that is pro-abortion.
- TikTok is also pro-life by allowing comments and videos strongly critical of pro-abortion views and videos.
- TikTok is anti-Establishment, and thereby anti–liberal agenda that is force-fed to kids in school.
- Tiktok is pro-parent, and not pro-drugs or pro–video games.
- Tiktok welcomes chivalry, and Will Smith is a leading star there after being subjected to liberal censorship by Hollywood.
- Tiktok pulls customers away from the Leftist-controlled Facebook and Google.
- Tiktok software facilitates fair debate better than social media platforms, by allowing users to snip others' videos and easily respond.
- Research finds TikTok actually favors Republicans, not Democrats, 2020 article
- Numerous prominent opponents of TikTok have demonstrated their utter lack of intellect to properly debate the most basic pretexts of technological functions. One North Carolina congressman was widely mocked for asking if TikTok uses home Wi-Fi.[5]
Counterarguments
Here are some counterarguments against TikTok, and responses:
- But what about all the objectionable content on TikTok?
- Response: this is a valid concern, as TikTok tries to interest adults and while attracting a large young audience. But the internet itself is not any different, or any better than TikTok. Neither are public school libraries, about which there has been outrage. Transferring private ownership of TikTok to a Biden supporter is not going to make it better.
- Politicians are notorious for their disingenuous concern trolling to smear their opponents. The very U.S. representatives who consciously and openly approve reckless spending plans (that ostensibly carry the effect of leaving future generations deeper in debt), and who place greater priority on appeasing Ukraine than addressing domestic issues, lashed out against against TikTok in the name of "concern for our children," and the Democratic side which employed the argument is infamous for supporting the murder of unborn children.
- But what about the immense amount of time wasted by students on TikTok?
- Response: this too is a valid concern, but those hours (at least for boys) would otherwise be spent playing violent video games. So far, barely, if any, evidence implicates heinous crimes as attributable to TikTok addiction, while many such crimes have been traced to video game addiction.
- But what about the ownership of TikTok by communist China?
- Response: not desirable, but communist China essentially owns and controls Apple and where is the outcry over that? Apple gathers far more personal information about Americans than TikTok does. TikTok requests consent first before linking to information on one's phone, and it is difficult to see what China could ever do with some phone numbers and TikTok accounts of random Americans. The biggest objector to TikTok is its liberal competitor Facebook, which censored Trump. Transferring ownership of TikTok to a globalist private equity fund that has offices in the U.S. and in China would help no one except Facebook.
- Furthermore, not all campaigns rooted in professed "anti-Communism" hold equal standing. The Palmer Raids a century ago was a manifestation of progressive statism against Communism, and were opposed by most conservative Republicans for their flagrant violation of civil liberties.
- Don't kids need to be protected?
- Response: the responsibility for the protection of children ultimately rests on parents, not the federal government. If parents allow their children to be indoctrinated by pornography, homosexuality, pro-abortion propaganda, neo-Marxism, Nazism, etc., then no amount of government action can truly alleviate the problem at its root.
See also
References
- ↑ https://truthsocial.com/users/TulsiGabbard/statuses/110168460788792401
- ↑ https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
- ↑ Lee, Carol E. (March 19, 2023). TikTok now has 150 million active users in the U.S., CEO to tell Congress. NBC News. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
- ↑ Pahwa, Nitish (March 16, 2023). Joe Biden’s TikTok Crackdown Might Not Work Out for Him. Slate. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
- ↑ March 23, 2023. Congressman Richard Hudson asks TikTok CEO Shou Chew if app uses ‘home WiFi’. The Independent via Yahoo. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
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