@randpaul I join @TikTok ♬ original sound - Rand Paul
January 18, 2025
"I don't like being told what to do. I don't like being told what I can think or what I can say."
"The courts may think there's an exemption to the First Amendment. I don't. I'm joining TikTok today as a form of civil disobedience."
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Keep battling those neighbors and straw men…
The banning of Tik Tok and the ensuing outrage over it hardly has nothing to do with straw men.
I thought the court was pretty clear about the reasons underpinning the ban. Maybe Rand Paul needs to self-brief a little better, since he has the access. I notice he is all about 'free speech, First Amendment Exemptions' and nothing about 'National Security'.
"Don't give up, don't given in; Resist ! " Brave stirring words, I guess - but how do you do that, unless it's on Instagram, eh? TikTok will be black. Talk about something cogent, and articulate better.
"I thought the court was pretty clear about the reasons underpinning the ban."
As I thought Althouse made clear, the Court did not even address the "reasons" under-pinning the ban, except to say that they were the sorts of reasons that Congress is at Constitutional liberty to consider.
Rand Paul and his dad are kind of nutty.
…a goofy after-the-fact stunt. What bravery…
Why doesn’t he just copy his hard drive and ship the copy to China?
Just what kind of data is Tik Tok going to give to the Chinese government that every data broker in the world doesn't already (legally) have?
Today is TikTok. Tomorrow could be blogs. Who's to say?
Tiki Tok is the Chinese government. That's the whole point. But to address your question seriously what TT does that normal apps do not is install a key logger on your phone or laptop, whichever platform you load it on, which continuously sends that string back to the servers in China.
Loading the app is cheaper and accomplished the same thing.
Well, which blogs are we talking about? Maybe some blogs should be gone. Maybe some blogs are supportive of enemies of the United States, and boring photography.
You have your enemies list messed up. Our biggest enemy is censorship.
“I don’t like being told what I can think or what I can say”.
Bet he didn’t say the ‘N’ word.
Fool.
Oh to be a senator where one has the assumption people don't tell you what you can't do or say.
People expressing opinions about this should be obliged to preface their comments with a statement that they either do or do not believe that Tiktok is an instrument of CCP subversion. I believe that Tiktok is an instrument of CCP subversion.
You can always tell a libertarian but you sure can't tell them much. The libertarians just don't want to hear it. The thing is that all of the Paul's philosophical integrity immediately crumbles when faced with the reality that 99% of America's enemies have zero integrity and will use Paulist style tolerance to weaken and then kill us (cf. S. Alinsky, 1971). But thanks for the pocket Constitution though doctor.
Tiktok now down.
As long as he doesn't do the stupid dances.
May become necessary for Althouse to submit to a loyalty oath.
And the head of X is currently working for the US Government as part of doge.
That isnt so with Bytedance.
I have been totally subverted by Korean cheerleaders. The genius! America is lost.
Even TikTok links don't work for me. Apparently you have to download something. As a programmer, my policy is never download anything.
@Lem Vibe Bandit: "Our biggest enemy is censorship."
Well then, you are saying that China is our biggest enemy...
See the informed commentary below from a guy who lived in China for several years and is married to a Chinese woman. TikTok --> "Red Note" app (a renamed version of Chairman Mao's "Little Red Book"). Internal Chinese social media is nothing like US TikTok, and Red Note is now being modeled on TikTok.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjWairkG9lw
Subversion is the foam on top of the espionage cappuccino. TikTok is first and foremost an instrument for data collection and aggregation. Their intelligence agencies are freely given everything they need to create comprehensive dossiers on millions of people, and then establish social interaction maps (connection networks) to infer facts about millions more.
See the US National Archives on classification by compilation. You too may be able to generate Sensitive, Secret, and Top Secret material...
https://www.archives.gov/files/isoo/training/isootrainingtip15.pdf
https://www.archives.gov/files/isoo/notices/notice-2017-02.pdf
First they came for TikTok, and I did not speak out—
Because I could not access TikTok.
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