Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 05:07:39 +0000 From: John Larkin 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 22:05:48 -0700 Organization: Highland Tech Reply-To: xx@yy.com Message-ID: References: <4gc54j9li23r1tqk93l9edlu7ndr5ljbd1@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.1/32.783 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 53 X-Trace: sv3-tJb0dm5qA1G+BBvguc3IgxXQBlP8rHX6pujVn/Or8jsPioV1iHYctFdFWFcbGnVTQnA0+rRb6tJBvEv!wnOLy/S941n76mrs0n2mHgyG5lfnMi+xZy9JIHXoIABQDaFcw4sgYZV+5kWEOFcRxB4LQpxHoXbb!1VNDAA== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/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: 3897 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.