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On Mon, 13 May 2024 21:39:19 -0600, Sharx335 <sharx35@telus.net>
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.