US Politicians Ban TikTok to Save Free Speech

Using authoritarianism to fight authoritarianism is the USA way

In order to stop the digital equivalence of thousands of Chinese spy balloons (a current US representative actually said that) from destroying free speech in America, US politicians are jumping into action: they’re destroying it first.

When it comes to massive tech companies surging endless propaganda into our minds and controlling what we see, we want them to be homegrown and American, dammit! Not from some foreign government! So in order to stop foreign authoritarianism, a bipartisan array of politicians are boosting the domestic kind by voting to ban TikTok.

And don’t be fooled, this is JUST about the issue of a foreign government spying on us, and NOT (even though many of the same politicians accidentally said this quiet part out loud) because the government is suddenly unable to control the main news source of a majority of young people. When the youth stop tuning in to state media like MSNBC, Fox News, or CNN, they apparently start to get some very dangerous ideas.

Like being against genocide, for example.

In a leaked audio, the head of the ADL told shareholders that Israel “reeeeeally has a TikTok problem.” It seems that when people get a chance to think for themselves and independent journalists have a platform to share facts, they don’t side with oppressors. And that has become a problem for the US and Israel.

Aaron and Katie are keeping a close eye on this as the bill moves on to the Senate. We’ll see if they join the House in the decision to fight fire with fire.

Plus, CNN aired on national television that Ilhan Omar is “a public relations agent for Hamas,” Adam Schiff is back to doing what he does best (Russiagating), and Ben Shapiro has a terrible new take, along with a dream to make America worse.

Everything’s as terrible as ever – throw down with Katie and Aaron so you can hopefully laugh instead of cry at it.

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