re: Tik Tok is a "hypothetical threat", no evidence of any coordination with China

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This board likes TikTok now?

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Well yeah. Trump likes it.

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Hasn’t china effectively banned Facebook, google and other platforms?

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Ever been to mainland China? All social media shuts off. Outside of TikTok, WeChat is about the only thing you can get without VPN.

The Israelis asked Congress to intervene. Apparently it’s because of the War in Gaza, and how it’s being shown on Tik Tok.

That’s why Mnuchin and Pavlovski (Rumble) were presumably asked to step in and buy it. They’re doing their patriotic duty, like Arnon Milchan did.

Israel doesn’t poll well with younger Americans, and Jerusalem probably sees Tik Tok as part of the problem and a way to change perceptions.

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Tell us that you have no clue how a business works in a communist state, without telling us you have no clue how a business works in a communist state They are assigned "minders", that have access to, and observe and report everything (plus steal IPs) back to the party. Its not a hypothetical

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And exactly what information do you believe the CCP is gathering from TikTok? Specifically what information do you believe they are getting from it that they aren’t getting from Meta/X/Reddit (whom they directly have ownership in) and other social media?

This law is about two things: 1. Enriching and protecting Meta and its investors including those in our government and their families and friends and 2. Restricting free speech.

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no evidence of any coordination with China

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The Israelis asked Congress to intervene. Apparently it’s because of the War in Gaza, and how it’s being shown on Tik Tok.

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It's being shown on X as well....this is nothing new....TikTok is just a better short-form platform

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BREAKING: U.S. Intelligence admits that TikTok's threat is purely “hypothetical” and has failed to provide any evidence that TikTok has ever coordinated with the Chinese government, according to a spokesperson at the FBI.
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US intelligence community strikes again trying to make policy.

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What an odd statement by “the US Intelligence Community” (to whomever that may refer).
Perhaps 51 ex-intel experts?

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Let’s take a look at what we know.

We know the CCP has access to TikTok data through both ByteDance infiltration and “super credentials.”

We know, during Congressional Testimony, ByteDance Reps refused to answer how many CCP officials were employed by them, much less who they were, how they were hired, and what corporate roles they were/are assigned.

We know BD CCP access points were used to acquire personal info on Hong Kong dissidents during the Chinese takeover aiding the CCP as it crushed HK freedom.

We know “super credential" BD access points have similarly been used against US Journalists and to attempt to identify leaks and sources.

We also know the CCP controls ByteDance. When the CCP says “Jump!” BD responds “How high?”

For example, the decision to divest and spinoff TikTok will not be ByteDance’s. It will be made exclusively by the CCP.

We also know the TikTok algorithms styling to Western "values" (aka, Drag Queen Story Hours, It-Won't-Lick-Itself Grooming Tranny Strippers, and a Library full of "Libs of TikTok" content) are banned in China. When Hong Kong fell, TikTok was banished there as well. Why? China has its own version, Douyin, indistinguishable from its international sibling ... EXCEPT for their different behavior styling algorithms. Why? Well it seems where Douyin guides its Chinese users to Nationalism, TikTok guides its Western users to NAMBLA.

Those are a few of the things we know.

So this appears to be another WTF moment for our illustrious “US Intelligence Community”

Four years ago they laughed Trump out of office for things like banning.

Now it is done with glee.

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Can’t imagine why Trump would do an 180.

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If he’s getting better campaign advice this year they would tell him he’s way more popular on tik tok than Biden is. This isn’t a hill to die on.


And I honestly don’t care if Trump is taking donations.

The democrats way outspent the republicans to beat Trump. You are going to need the money.

You know who never wins elections? The ones that don’t take donations. They get a very low % of the votes in these primaries.