TikTok Ban Bill, HR7521, Is A Domestic Information Control “Trojan Horse” By Executive Branch Of U.S. Government
By Sundance Of Conservative Treehouse
I swear by all that I know to be righteous and accurate, the combined willpower of the UniParty in Washington DC is not targeting TikTok from the perspective of concern over data collection.
Instead, the DC system (US intelligence community) is using the auspices of TikTok to expand the reach of government censorship and information control. This is a domestic information space battle, using the guise of TikTok as a baseline for justification. How do we know?
You only need to look at the mechanism of the law as it is written, the compliance section, and the definitions they are using to see they are not targeting data collection. Read the proposed law, HR7521.
If TikTok data collection was the issue, the law would be structured to ban foreign data collection. That’s not what this is. This is a law written to give the Executive Branch the power to define any platform as “foreign owned” by the service provider (even if domestic) and the substance of the content contained and/or distributed. This has to be stopped.
Read the law as written through the prism of “Information Control,” not the prism of data collection. The law is designed to control information, not data collection.
As readers are well aware, the USIC is in alignment (I would say control) with almost all U.S-based social media platforms. This is why/how DHS is operating in synergy with those same systems. This is also the motive behind the MIS-dis-MAL-information definitions. Ultimately, if you stand back and look at what is being done, you see the concern of the U.S. government is not data collection, it’s information control.
The TikTok ban, authorized by a duplicitous Legislative branch, is expanding the ability of the Executive branch to control information. Just as The Patriot Act was not about targeting terrorism, but really about domestic surveillance; so too is the TikTok ban not about foreign data collection, it’s about information control.
Again, read the law as written, and you can clearly see this is a law created to authorize the agencies of the government to control information. Silence is the same as consent in the face of oppression. Do not be silent.
While I agree with you about the overall purpose of the TikTok ban. . . I'm not sure this is a great reading of the statute. The section you cite refers to a "determination of the President. . . pursuant to paragraph 3(B)". That paragraph is on page 10, and allows the President to determine that a "covered company" that is "controlled by a foreign adversary" poses a national security risk. The definition of "foreign adversary" is defined in paragraph 4 by referring to 10 U.S.C. 4872(d)(2).
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/4872
So, basically, North Korea, China, Russia, and Iran.
It's a way of allowing the President to ban new apps as they're rolled out without having to pass a new statute every damned time.
I definitely believe that the real motivation for doing this is that the USIC would prefer that it, not China, have control over US internet content. But the text of the law doesn't support as extensive an application as you imply.