The legislation attempting to ban TikTok in the United States is unconstitutional, immoral, and tyrannical.  It is a violation of property rights and free speech.

The Biden regime has done many bad things.  This legislation would probably make the top 5 list of bad things done by the federal government since January 2021.  The funding of wars, killing of innocent people, and vaccine mandates were worse.

This legislation to ban TikTok is considered to be bipartisan.  Whenever anything is called bipartisan in Washington, it means it is bad for the average American.  This is no exception.

Every single person in Congress who votes in favor of this legislation should be voted out of office.  It is an egregious violation of the rights of Americans.  In the name of national security, it forces the sale or divestment of TikTok by Chinese holders or else the app/ website will be banned in the United States.  It has been pointed out that the Chinese ownership (not the Chinese government) is a minority stake in the company, not that it should matter.

You can look at a list of the votes in Congress.  All of the tyrants who support this legislation should be tossed.  There are disappointments like Lauren Boebert and Anna Paulina Luna, who voted “yes”.  They should be tossed.

Some of the people considered more right wing and left wing voted the right way.  Some notable “no” votes are Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie, Barbara Lee, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Some of the reasoning behind voting “no” was not necessarily the correct reasoning, but at least they got the vote right.  It is hard to speak of property rights and free speech directly when you don’t typically make these arguments with all of the other horrible things done in Washington.

This legislation will not only impact TikTok, but it gives something close to a blank check to the president to ban any app or website that could be considered under the influence or control of a foreign entity.  For this reason alone, all Republicans should have opposed this legislation.  All we hear from the establishment Democrats is that this or that person is under the thumb of Putin.

With this legislation, it is not at all out of the realm of possibility that the president could get rid of Twitter or Rumble or any platform hosting anyone who supposedly spreads “Russian disinformation”.  The president could effectively ban people like Joe Rogan or Tucker Carlson.

National Security?

TikTok is especially popular with young people.  Some people have the false impression that TikTok is just people doing little dance videos.  Maybe it started out this way primarily, but it has become a huge platform for communication and conveying information.  Like any platform, some information is more informative and accurate than other information.

Even if the Chinese government had access to information coming from TikTok, how is this a national security issue?  What are they going to do with an American’s email address after signing up?  Or is the Chinese government going to use information based on the viewing habits of the American people?  And what exactly will be done with this information that is any different from YouTube or Facebook or Google?

Actually, the companies other than TikTok are a far bigger threat to the American people.  These are the companies that the federal government controls.  And that is just the point.  Biden and company can tell YouTube and Facebook to censor vaccine misinformation or any other information (i.e., information that is likely true that opposes the establishment narrative).  They don’t have this control over TikTok.  That is the key behind all of this.

It is rather rich coming from the criminals in Washington that China may use information from TikTok to harm our national security.  It is the National Security Agency (NSA) that collects all of our information including text messages and email messages.  It is the NSA, FBI, CIA and other agencies that collect our data and use it against the American people.

The Chinese government never told me that I would lose my job if I didn’t take an injection in my arm.  The Chinese government doesn’t take nearly half of my money every year.  The Chinese government doesn’t read my emails and text messages.  Maybe the Chinese government does that to the Chinese, but that is the business of the people in China to deal with.  The big threat to Americans is the U.S. government, particularly the so-called intelligence agencies.  They are the criminals who commit crimes and injustices against the American people.

National security is the excuse to attempt to ban TikTok.  The problem for the American criminals in Washington isn’t that TikTok is partially owned by Chinese companies.  The problem for the criminals is that they can’t control it, and they can’t control the information that is coming out of it.  A teenager on TikTok might actually learn that the COVID “vaccines” aren’t safe and effective.  They may learn that the U.S. helped foment a coup in Ukraine in 2014 that led to the current war.

Property Rights and Free Speech

At its core, this is an issue of property rights and free speech.  The two are often intertwined.  Any legislation targeting a particular person or company is almost always bad.  This is a violation of property rights.  The owners of TikTok should at least have their day in court.  If they are jeopardizing national security, then the government should have to prove their case against TikTok.  Of course, there is no case based on the talking points being repeated by the establishment.

The establishment figures in Washington don’t like that the internet is wide open.  They don’t like that they can’t fully control it.  They used to have a near monopoly on information, as the big newspapers and media outlets would mostly repeat the establishment narrative.  They would keep any debate within a narrow range.

The federal government has had influence on social media companies.  It was already known, but it became more known with more proof after Elon Musk bought Twitter.  The government was giving instructions to the social media companies on what should be allowed and what should be banned or not show up in people’s search results or feeds.

Political Fallout

The one piece of good news from this is that there may be a strong backlash.  In some ways, I hope that TikTok isn’t sold and that it is actually banned from the U.S.  It is going to anger tens of millions of people.

Sure, I wish the COVID lockdowns, vaccine mandates, the national debt, and wars had sparked rage in these people.  Still, it’s better late than never.  We naturally get more upset at things that directly impact us.  The majority of young people who are on social media use TikTok.  They like TikTok because they get the content that they want, and it isn’t censored.

My hope is that there is a campaign to dethrone every single member of Congress who voted “yes” for this legislation.  They should also dethrone Biden who has promised to sign the legislation.

It is interesting that Trump, while president, threatened to ban TikTok, but then dropped the issue.  Now he has reversed course and said that he doesn’t really favor this legislation.  It is all in good Trump fashion, but at least he has a pulse on the people.  I think he at least understands that it isn’t a popular move.

I want young people to understand that this isn’t just a matter of having their favorite social media app taken away from them.  It is a violation of property rights.  It is a violation of free speech.  It is a fight against the criminals who are residing in Washington DC and ruling over us.  They are the enemy.  It isn’t China.