I’m sorry but Walter Kirn is a fucking idiot. He went from we shouldn’t ban TikTok, to acknowledging the Chinese is up to all sorts of odd espionage activities in U.S., but that doesn’t apply to TikTok, well actually I’m just concerned about the bill itself and how broad it is, to talking about how TikTok is a force for good because in E…
I’m sorry but Walter Kirn is a fucking idiot. He went from we shouldn’t ban TikTok, to acknowledging the Chinese is up to all sorts of odd espionage activities in U.S., but that doesn’t apply to TikTok, well actually I’m just concerned about the bill itself and how broad it is, to talking about how TikTok is a force for good because in East Palestine, Ohio people saw videos about dead fish.
The power of TikTok is its ability to influence and mobilize large groups of people within our country. How do you think massive groups of people believe the Hamas propaganda and are violently protesting in support of it? Because the algorithm exposed them to specific narratives designed to get them to act.
Imagine China invaded Taiwan, conducted electronic attacks to shut down their internet connectivity, and during the invasion started algorithmically pumping up videos of Chinese propaganda showing Taiwanese separatists talking about how they love it, no war crimes were committed, this is amazing, we’ve always wanted this. Then that trickles into the American youth psyche and we see violent protests demanding no intervention in Taiwan because TikTok showed them a happy story.
I’m a relatively conservative libertarian. But I swear you guys want to libertarian yourselves to death because you lack common sense to know that your principles only make sense to a certain point. Principles are good but judgment is necessary. To just lazily stick to your principles no matter the cost and cover your eyes and ears and hope the bad things don’t happen “because free markets” or something is stupid.
I’m sorry but Walter Kirn is a fucking idiot. He went from we shouldn’t ban TikTok, to acknowledging the Chinese is up to all sorts of odd espionage activities in U.S., but that doesn’t apply to TikTok, well actually I’m just concerned about the bill itself and how broad it is, to talking about how TikTok is a force for good because in East Palestine, Ohio people saw videos about dead fish.
The power of TikTok is its ability to influence and mobilize large groups of people within our country. How do you think massive groups of people believe the Hamas propaganda and are violently protesting in support of it? Because the algorithm exposed them to specific narratives designed to get them to act.
Imagine China invaded Taiwan, conducted electronic attacks to shut down their internet connectivity, and during the invasion started algorithmically pumping up videos of Chinese propaganda showing Taiwanese separatists talking about how they love it, no war crimes were committed, this is amazing, we’ve always wanted this. Then that trickles into the American youth psyche and we see violent protests demanding no intervention in Taiwan because TikTok showed them a happy story.
I’m a relatively conservative libertarian. But I swear you guys want to libertarian yourselves to death because you lack common sense to know that your principles only make sense to a certain point. Principles are good but judgment is necessary. To just lazily stick to your principles no matter the cost and cover your eyes and ears and hope the bad things don’t happen “because free markets” or something is stupid.