The US congress may be "completely oblivious" but the intelligence agencies certainly aren't

Editor's note: The analog clock is tick-tocking on America. Do a TikTok dance. The inconsequential and mostly embarrassingly ignorant US government (mostly eviscerated and privatized) best described here as US congress and senate members (hypocrites), the folks Americans vote for not to represent them, but to represent powerful monied corporate interests, want to ban TikTok because as they claim, it is outside of their censorship and digital control umbrella. The excuse to say that China is spying is in fact a red herring. All US tech corporations have backdoors for US intelligence agencies to spy on Americans and the world. What a disgrace for America and the world knows it. Question: What the hell was the US congress and senate doing when the Department of Defense issued a contract for "COVID-19 Research" in Ukraine 3 months before Covid was known to even exist?

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Source: Armstrong Economics

Why The Sudden Move to Ban TikTok? Congress Wages War on Free Speech

March 27, 2023 | by Martin Armstrong

TikTok is more than dance videos. It has become a community where people can share their uncensored ideas on various topics—including ones that go against the government's agenda. The House Energy and Commerce Committee grilled TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew for hours on Thursday and made it very apparent that our Congress is completely oblivious to how technology works. Facebook, Meta, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, and nearly all other social media platforms have been infiltrated by the government and are HEAVILY CENSORED. We may soon see the day when Americans are forced to use a VPN.

Why is Joe Biden acting fast to ban TikTok? Inflation is running rampant and he only passes legislation to worsen the problem. It took him 72 hours to even respond to the bank failures. Biden barely flinched over the train derailment and contamination of drinking water across the nation. He has done absolutely nothing to protect our borders, which is contributing to human trafficking, high taxes, and the fentanyl crisis. Suddenly Biden is acting fast to ban an application that he likely has never used.

It is not about privacy from the Chinese government. TikTok is not even available in mainland China as their version is heavily censored. TikTok is a subsidiary of ByteDance, a private company that is not owned by the Chinese government. About 60% of the company is owned by institutional investors, 20% is owned by the founder, and the other 20% is owned by employees. ByteDance has five board members and three of them are American. Their headquarters are in Singapore and Los Angeles, and they have 7,000 employees in the US.

Please go to Armstrong Economics to continue reading then do a TikTok dance.

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Some good background information:

The "Free and Open Internet" Hypocrites