Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Sharx335 Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling,rec.arts.tv,uk.comp.sys.mac,edm.general,sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Mitt Romney Says Congress Supports Banning TikTok for Israel Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 23:24:19 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: <4gc54j9li23r1tqk93l9edlu7ndr5ljbd1@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 07:24:19 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0dc5189189c0c120170e3f4d9e9abc9a"; logging-data="7371"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18u882+OKOK8sGEyjG92awaD0yDFJ5C0+o=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:sqy0pJWBy1LCNGOQfFt47+xdPj8= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 4047 On 2024-05-13 11:05 p.m., John Larkin wrote: > On Mon, 13 May 2024 21:39:19 -0600, 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. > > It's a Chinese plot to undermine America by rotting the brains of our > youth. It's working. > As demonstrated by all those pro-terrorist illegal campus occupations.