After that deadline, third-party Internet service providers would be penalized for supporting TikToks operations in the country.
A TikTok spokesperson said in an email to CNBC, We cant be expected to comment on pure fiction.
X didnt immediately respond to a request for comment.
Well wouldn’t this just be perfect?
The rocket-launching, tweet-typing, CEO-of-fuckin-everything Elon Musk.
But lets take a step back to admire the cosmic joke here.
They threatened to ban it.
All in the name of protecting innocent American children from the digital jaws of the Chinese Communist Party.
Because tiktok is fucking horrifying when you peel back the layers and listen to the experts discuss it.
8 months ago, one of my favorite podcasts,The Tim Ferriss Showhad Matt Pottinger on.
He’s a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, and former United States Deputy National Security Advisor.
He’s also extremely well versed in the CCP.
And what he had to say was that TikTok isnt just your run-of-the-mill social media app.
Its basically the CCPs Trojan Horse.
And again, credit where it’s rarely due- Congress was right.
She called it rubbish and said it would rot my brain.
And that was when they actually played music videos!
But she couldn’t stop me.
My appetite forTRL,Yo!
MTV Raps,and Britney Spears videos was insatiable.
Tiktok/Douyin also crushes any content even slightly embarrassing to the CCP.
Keep that stuff under wraps!
(And by pot-stirrers", I mean most of the intelligence community.)
They are purposely dumbing down and dividing an already moronic and divided polpulation.
Meanwhile, the CCP is basically feeding their populace a balanced, government-approved diet.
Pottinger also raised the alarm that TikToks data security is less secure than a screen door on a submarine.
But do you know whats apparently more terrifying to some U.S. officials?
Elon Musk having access to the same platform.
Youd think theyd prefer the rocket guy over the possibility of an authoritarian regime collecting data, right?
Lets just say logic doesnt always figure into these debates.
The company TSMC in Taiwan produces 92% of the worlds advanced semiconductors.
And they all come from an island that China wouldnt mind absorbing.
Pottinger hammered home that a credible U.S. deterrence- i.e.
military presence, strong alliances, and so forth, is essential to prevent China from running amok.
So I don’t know what’s worse.
Elon gaining even more power, or the CCP continuing it’s softwar against us?
That sound you just heard was Elizabeth Warren shrieking in horror.
Can’t we just get rid of the thing altogether?
- you’re able to listen to the entire Matt Pottinger on Tim Ferriss EPISODE HERE.
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