We shouldn't ban TikTok as a first course of action. Free speech and expression is the most important freedom that is in the bill of rights. But that doesn't mean that we should allow an adversarial foreign government to control the messaging of an important social media platform, collect and control data on 100s of millions of users or …
We shouldn't ban TikTok as a first course of action. Free speech and expression is the most important freedom that is in the bill of rights. But that doesn't mean that we should allow an adversarial foreign government to control the messaging of an important social media platform, collect and control data on 100s of millions of users or have title to the algorithms used to collect that data and the disposition of that data.
Lets be real here folks. China, under it's current government, is not our friend and hasn't been a friendly government for over 75 years. Their system of government is hostile to our system of government and the basic freedoms that it conveys to the individual citizen. Communism and a Constitutional Republic are like oil and water, they just don't mix.
The correct policy here is one of divestment. TikTok can sell it's US based business to an American corporation that is subject to our laws or they can be completely banned in this country. And that sale has to include rights to the underlying code and expungement of the data that is currently in Chinese hands. That policy is exactly how our companies are treated over in China. This issue is one of their government's creation, not ours. And our government should not hesitate to act to protect it's citizens. Under that new set of rules, there isn't any reason that TiKToK shouldn't continue to exist in the USA.
We shouldn't ban TikTok as a first course of action. Free speech and expression is the most important freedom that is in the bill of rights. But that doesn't mean that we should allow an adversarial foreign government to control the messaging of an important social media platform, collect and control data on 100s of millions of users or have title to the algorithms used to collect that data and the disposition of that data.
Lets be real here folks. China, under it's current government, is not our friend and hasn't been a friendly government for over 75 years. Their system of government is hostile to our system of government and the basic freedoms that it conveys to the individual citizen. Communism and a Constitutional Republic are like oil and water, they just don't mix.
The correct policy here is one of divestment. TikTok can sell it's US based business to an American corporation that is subject to our laws or they can be completely banned in this country. And that sale has to include rights to the underlying code and expungement of the data that is currently in Chinese hands. That policy is exactly how our companies are treated over in China. This issue is one of their government's creation, not ours. And our government should not hesitate to act to protect it's citizens. Under that new set of rules, there isn't any reason that TiKToK shouldn't continue to exist in the USA.