of bill of rights It is not a means for foreign adversaries of the United States to violate the freedoms of Americans. The Supreme Court also expressed a similar recognition. when it is supported The requirements of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Control Applications Act (the “Act”) that TikTok be stripped of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ownership or cease operations in the United States.
TikTok is a Trojan horse. It is a means by which the Chinese Communist Party infiltrates American culture and collects personal data of American citizens, threatening both individual privacy and national security. What makes this Trojan unique is that it is transparent. Anyone who wants to see can see a Chinese Communist Party engineer sitting inside a horse. The Chinese Communist Party is hoping Americans will be so obsessed with the app that they won’t notice or care before bringing it inside city walls. (Related: Newt Gingrich: People vs. Bureaucracy)
“TikTok does not operate in China,” TikTok’s lawyer admits during oral argument As Advancing American Freedom argued, Court summary Although they are asking the Supreme Court to uphold the law, TikTok is designed as a weapon for the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign interference.
a report Research by the Network Communicable Disease Research Institute (NCRI) shows evidence that content critical of China on TikTok, such as content about Tiananmen and China’s Uyghurs, is being suppressed during searches and drowned out by unrelated, pro-China content. discovered. There’s also no reason to think that the algorithm isn’t manipulating what Americans do and don’t see on apps in more subtle and even more nefarious ways.
TikTok discussed before The Supreme Court ruled that this action violated the law. First Amendment Rights As an American company, it argued that the app’s recommendation algorithm was protected speech. However, some of the justices understandably pushed back, pointing out that the speech in question likely belonged to the Chinese government, not TikTok.
TikTok is owned by Chinese companies such as ByteDance are naturally under the control of the Chinese Communist Party. TikTok’s argument is that foreign adversaries like the Chinese Communist Party are fabricating First Amendment rights for themselves by simply creating a few layers of artificial corporate insulation, and are subverting the Constitution’s protections for Americans’ freedoms. The idea is that it can be used as a shield against speech manipulation and collection activities. their personal information.
In other words, TikTok argues that the First Amendment protects the Chinese Communist Party’s “right” to engage in conduct that, if carried out by the federal government, would violate the First and Fourth Amendments. are.
In anticipation of TikTok shutting down on Sunday, many Americans are joining a Chinese TikTok alternative called RedNote. mass murderer And, apparently in exasperation with this act, the Little Red Book of Mao Zedong, the founder of the Chinese Communist Party, was published. Americans’ skepticism of government and propensity for government overreach is an admirable and fundamental tradition in our nation’s history.
The Founders were similarly concerned about the potential for abuse of government power, and introduced both the federal structure and later the Bill of Rights to curb that abuse. However, the Constitution was the culmination of an effort for freedom that began with resistance to foreign tyranny.
as declaration of independence He explains that it is the people’s duty to overthrow tyrannical governments. Americans should not welcome Beijing’s despotism out of spite toward Washington.
If TikTok shuts down on Sunday, Americans would be better off reconsidering the Declaration of Independence and the Aeneid than downloading another app controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. Consider the words of Laocoon. The one who warned the Trojans not to bring horses into the city warned: “This hollow fabric / Must trap our hidden enemies in its blind recesses. / Or the engine raised above the city / Look down.” Breaking through the walls and breaking through. . / Definitely set up by fraud or brute force. / Don’t believe in their gifts and don’t accept their horses. ”
Mark Wheat is general counsel for America Advancing Freedom.
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