Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 04:54:51 +0000 Subject: Re: Mitt Romney Says Congress Supports Banning TikTok for Israel Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling,rec.arts.tv,uk.comp.sys.mac,edm.general,sci.electronics.design References: <4gc54j9li23r1tqk93l9edlu7ndr5ljbd1@4ax.com> From: % Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 21:54:50 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 240513-6, 2024-5-13), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Message-ID: <1emdnQM7jqoGc9_7nZ2dnZfqnPEAAAAA@giganews.com> Lines: 50 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-GonDAw0cw/2sqbZ5CYGoSBz99FAZlg7zu+RtsncO+0u+uWYumj4aWyIV89b1Gr9C1OL11uDeXVGA3BE!eYF96KZVJdjI7IPsWxeLcUD2XUUBu5bKmni2owIk8YTpkZb5wU1TRKFWwDmx52ND8UEok4+JspMV X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3936 Sharx335 wrote: > On 2024-05-13 6:43 p.m., NefeshBarYochai wrote: >> In a conversation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Sen. Mitt >> Romney (R-UT) acknowledged that banning TikTok has such strong support >> in Congress because the social media platform has hurt Israel’s public >> relations battle. >> >> “Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut >> down, potentially, TikTok or other entities of that nature,” Romney >> said at the McCain Institute this past Friday. “If you look at the >> postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative >> to other social media sites, it’s overwhelmingly so among TikTok >> broadcasts.” >> >> The official justification for targeting TikTok is the unfounded >> allegation that it’s a Chinese spy tool because its parent company, >> ByteDance, is based in China. But Romney’s comments suggest the real >> purpose of the renewed push to ban the app after a similar effort >> failed years ago was to censor news coming out of Gaza and >> pro-Palestinian content. >> >> Blinken blamed social media in general when asked by Romney why Israel >> was losing the global PR war. Palestinian journalists have been able >> to broadcast to the whole world the atrocities committed by Israel in >> Gaza using social media, including graphic videos of dead or wounded >> children being dug out of rubble following an Israeli airstrike. >> >> “Now, of course, we’re on an intravenous feed of information with new >> impulses, inputs every millisecond,” Blinken said. “And, of course, >> the way this has played out on social media has dominated the >> narrative. You have a social media ecosystem, environment in which >> context, history, facts get lost and the emotion, the impact of images >> dominate. We can’t discount that, but I think it also has a very very >> challenging effect on the narrative.” >> >> A bill to ban TikTok was included in the $95 billion foreign military >> spending package President Biden signed into law last month. The >> legislation gives ByteDance nine months to sell TikTok, or else it >> will get banned. But ByteDance has vowed to fight the ban in court and >> said it would rather shutdown TikTok than sell. >> >> https://news.antiwar.com/2024/05/06/mitt-romney-says-congress-supports-banning-tiktok-for-israel/ >> >> >> > > Tiktok is a colossal waste of time...showing imbeciles prancing > about,for example. Waste of energy and bandwidth. party lines are