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Subject: Re: Mitt Romney Says Congress Supports Banning TikTok for Israel
Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 21:39:19 -0600
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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.