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Libs just can't help their depraved addictions, thus
sideloading will become popular again, thus
LOTT will be keep exposing them...

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Ban TikTok Everywhere?

https://www.theepochtimes.com/ban-tiktok-everywhere_4915101.html

It’s time to ban TikTok. The social media app is wildly popular with
young adults and children but controlled by an authoritarian regime in
China. Apple rates the platform for users ages 12-plus. Yet the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses the app’s secret algorithm to
influence and track their opinions, messaging, keystrokes, and
locations.
The TikTok logo is displayed outside a TikTok office in Culver City,
Calif., on Aug. 27, 2020. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

One billion users globally are vulnerable to the theft of their
passwords and future blackmail. Based on data already collected,
TikTok could leverage American leaders over the entire 21st century.

TikTok is expanding into online purchases, music, search engines,
warehouses, and fulfillment centers. It would like to become an
everything app that replaces Google, Apple, Twitter, Amazon, and
Facebook.

Unfortunately, the Biden administration is doing next to nothing
against the threat that TikTok poses to the American public and
economy. The silence of most Democrats on the issue is a form of
complicity.
Republican States Against TikTok

But Republicans in Congress and state capitals across the United
States are increasingly voicing their concerns and stepping up to the
plate.

Nebraska’s Governor Pete Ricketts was the trendsetter, having banned
TikTok on state-owned and leased devices two years ago. In the past
few weeks, other Republican leaders—including in Texas, South Dakota,
South Carolina, Maryland, and Arkansas—have taken similar actions.

The State of Indiana filed two lawsuits against Tiktok, alleging the
app deceives consumers about content and security. Indiana claims the
algorithm purposefully addicts young people. One lawsuit claims it
promotes inappropriate content and is linked to mental and eating
disorders.
A young girl looks at social media apps, including TikTok, Instagram,
Snapchat, and WhatsApp, on a smartphone on Nov. 12, 2019. (Peter
Byrne/PA)

Indiana’s Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita said, “TikTok is
actively exposing our children to drug use, alcohol abuse, profanity
and sexually explicit material at a young age.”

In South Carolina, the Republican governor not only removed the app
from government devices, but asked state offices to block TikTok’s
website.

Republican Governor of Maryland Larry Hogan issued an emergency
cybersecurity directive prohibiting technologies from both Russia and
China, including TikTok, from the executive branch.

South Dakota’s tourism bureau deleted its TikTok account of 60,000 followers.

These states are stepping up to pay the price for U.S. national security.

South Dakota’s Governor Kristi Noem, who signed the state’s executive
order against TikTok, wrote that the CCP collects personal information
on users, including internet browsing data and keystrokes. That would
mean it could harvest passwords.

In an opinion article, Noem criticized the Biden administration for
insufficiently protecting the United States from foreign adversaries.

“Mr. Biden hasn’t demanded that Beijing or TikTok cease gathering the
data of American citizens, and he hasn’t pushed Congress to ban the
app nationally,” she wrote. “By refusing to respond to this threat,
the president is allowing China’s communist leaders to continue their
attack on American security.”

Noem also plans to work with South Dakota’s legislature to address
China’s buying of American farmland. Companies from China often
purchase land near U.S. military bases, threatening surveillance of
strategic assets, including nuclear weapons.

“South Dakota is showing the nation how to create a state-led response
to threats from communist China,” the governor wrote. “We are taking
the lead on preventing Beijing from accessing the private data of our
citizens and throttling our food supply.”

Noem, a Republican, will get support from most of South Dakota’s
voters as 53 percent are Republicans, compared to only 37 percent
Democrats. China can be a bipartisan issue—perhaps many Democrats will
support her measures. But TikTok users and farmland owners could turn
against her.

Taking a strong position against the CCP, even on a bipartisan issue
in the United States, carries political risk.
Biden’s Big Choice

The Biden administration faces increasing risk from its limited
options on the TikTok issue as well. Whether it bans the app or not,
someone will be unhappy.

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