Independent journalist Matt Taibbi appears on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the current U.S. position on social media platform TikTok and the larger issues with government censorship and control as he has outlined within the ‘Twitter Files.’
Readers and observers should note how Council on Foreign Relations member Ms. Bartiromo again introduces the TikTok narrative around the ability of the Chinese government to request user data from TikTok, while Ms. Bartiromo seemingly ignores the U.S. surveillance policy that grants DOJ/FBI officials identical access to user data from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Google, Apple, etc.
However, independent thinking Matt Taibbi does a great job with that question and reminds Ms Bartiromo the Senate Select Committee functions in the USA exactly as she is concerned about the CCP acting in China. [lolol.. Go Matt!] Bartiromo quickly dodges the point and moves on. WATCH:
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I like Matt Taibbi, even when he was a willfully blind lefty, he was always a curious cat. Deep State gotta Deep State. The cause of the “dramatic change” Taibbi notes has a name, it’s called Donald Trump.
Readers and observers should note how Council on Foreign Relations member Ms. Bartiromo again introduces the TikTok narrative around the ability of the Chinese government to request user data from TikTok, while Ms. Bartiromo seemingly ignores the U.S. surveillance policy that grants DOJ/FBI officials identical access to user data from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Google, Apple, etc.
Sorry, but this is an incredibly STUPID talking point. It is comparing apples and oranges.
Yes, our oligarchy uses the data AND censors social media.
HOWEVER, that manipulation is NOT being done by a FOREIGN adversary bent on our DESTRUCTION.
What would have been the reaction in the US to such a service provided by the USSR if that would have been possible at that time?
This has been correctly pointed out in several Scott Adams podcasts.
Our own government is hellbent on our destruction, and they were using OUR social media companies to accomplish said task…apples and apples.
Sort of pompous to call the host of this site stupid. Nobody’s making you post here
Oh, PLEASE!
Talk about a failure to discriminate between LEVELS of evil and the ultimate case of Whataboutism.
Scott Adams calls it STUPID and so do I.
Facts don’t care about feelings and neither do I when my country is at stake.
If someone wants to destroy me, I don’t care if they are from outside the US or the inside.
An enemy is an enemy, and I must note that it is easier to fight an outside enemy than one within our own ranks.
There is a reason for hanging traitors.
Did you miss my comment about LEVELS of evil?
Would you prefer to take the fast road to national ruin or the slower one because, sorry, THOSE are your ONLY choices. Steel Fist Eastern Oligarchy or Velvet Fist Western Oligarchy? Take your pick.
Trump is NOT going to fix that. An entire series of Trumps aren’t going to fix this. He will simply slow it down. Politically, culturally, and economically we have LONG been on the highway to hell and we are ALREADY compromised more than enough by the CCP and the neo-Marxist Postmodernism to allow the disgusting, twerking, dumbing down, and narrative directing Tik Tok to make that even worse.
BAN ALL CHINESE APPS. India has done so for the deaths of 20 of their soldiers to the PLA. How many US deaths and injuries have there been in the US due to the CCP virus? How many due to the jabs? How many due to fentanyl? THOSE ALONE justify a TOTAL BAN.
Once again. “Mission accomplished,” but by our own “higher education” system (read Chapter 6 of Righteous Indignation) and the CCP, not the Soviet Union. Substitute “The CCP” for every Soviet reference.
Former KGB Agent, Yuri Bezmenov, Warns America About Socialist Subversion
1,099,869 views – Jun 21, 2020
The CCP virus which parts of the Usay helped create. Taxpayers money not well spent.
We’re already on the fast track to ruin and who is to blame? Certainly not the Chinese. Who made China into the power it is now? That was the US government, large corporations and the wealthy.
Who is more of a threat to your freedom and rights China or the US government and the entities that control the government?
Trump was the only one who knows how to fight China and that’s economically. His policies of tariffs and making the economic conditions right so manufacturing could be brought back to the USA were working. What couldn’t be brought back was being shifted to non Chinese countries. Furthermore Trump wanted to ban Tik Tok from the get-go.
Covid 19 would have never happened if the DOD would not have farmed out biolabs to other countries and funded gain of function research. Who funded MRNA vaccine research long before covid 19 even reared it’s ugly head? Why is our southern border not secure? You could stop fentanyl easily by putting tariffs on everything that Mexico imports to the USA and not allow remittances to be returned to Mexico. Fentanyl would dry up quickly. Why don’t we do that?
Yes China is a foe, but a foe we created. The bogeyman is not in China, he resides in Washington DC.
LEVELS of evil? To what, or at what, “level” is “evil not as evil”?
Yes, but that manipulation is being done by a DOMESTIC ADVERSARY bent on our destruction.
The narrative of surreptitiously molding the minds and views of our citizens is the bigger reason for the concern of conservatives , while the inability of the American left to also have a piece of the action is what irks them about TikTok.
Speaking of manipulation,
which domestic influences have been hellbent on out destruction
by sending our industries and technologies to China, (including the infamous Wuhan Institute of Technology),
while gutting civil rights like free speech, worker and family protections here?
That isn’t on the Chinese people (who had an idiotic Marxist government foisted on them in the 1940s). That treason emanates from DC
Get back under your rock.
You arent very good at this, and the snipe at SD proves it.
They are exactly the same people, doing the same things.
China, pays Biden, does their bidding, and here we are.
Wake up ffs.
Constantly paying attention to foreign adversaries actions against us while ignoring our own governments unconstitutional intrusions into our liberties is what got us here.
To protect us from foreign threats, we got the Patriot Act.
Of course we should be constantly on guard against foreign manipulation, but we can’t allow what we are protecting to be destroyed from within while we worry about foreigners.
We can do both.
don’t kid yourselves
they work hand in hand
Is it better if the manipulation is caused by our domestic government bent on destroying freedom here? The outside adversary who declares it’s position is much easier to tolerate (and deal with) than the inside traitor who is waiving an American flag. We have arrived at that moment, haven’t we?
The current intelligencia is bent on destroying the last vestiges of self-governance.
It is done by a domestic enemy bent on our destruction.
[As Lincoln said, if we are going, it has to be by suicide.]
China is not after the destruction of the USA. They are working to end our repression of their economic and strategic interests and the reunification of China and Taiwan. The Chinese will be successful eventually and if we continue to fight them to continue our world hegemony we will exhaust ourselves. Actually we’ve already exhausted ourselves and seeded the destruction of the American Empire.
So a domestic adversary bent on our destruction is ok, just not a foreign one?
Evil is evil no matter domestic or foreign. Lives, careers destroyed, people killed unjustifiably. When you carry out, instigate, enable or are part of any act directly or indirectly, whereby another human being is subject to intense suffering, on false premises; even for so-called political, national security purposes, then you’ve committed evil.
If Bartiromo is a CFR member and that makes her part of the “enemy” cabal, how is it that she has been one of the loudest supporters of Trump, and also has been probably the most prominent on Fox contending rampant voter fraud in his election loss in 2020?
The denizens of this site, including the poster, too often seem to condemn anybody associated with any organization that the poster has identified with the evil empire. Perhaps business connections or networking has led to many solid conservatives belonging to those groups but does not necessarily make them the enemy.
We need to start treating every voice with any reach who says the right things and publicly pursues conservative ideals even if they have some ties we don’t like.
At the end of the day, Ms Bartiromo is a multi-millionaire Wall Street shill. There was a time I followed her closely. Lately? Not so much. She has become shrill, often steps on her panelists in a Hannity fashion, is a major Ukraine war supporter, doesn’t haven’t any real “skin in the game” when it comes to all the bellicose banter vis Russia, China, etc. Never asks the tough questions during her annual invite/vacation to Davos.
You need to start listening more closely. It is not always what is said, sometimes it is what is NOT said. Controlled opposition is very manipulative, highly deceptive and adept at prevarication, equivacation, and obfuscation.
The thing I notice the most about every single article that is written about the TikTok ordeal, is the COMPLETE exclusion of Parents Duties in paying attention to what their children are looking at, and participating in. A ton of all this crap comes directly from kids being exposed to the CCP way of spying on your own families and those ignorant of the ways of spying. THIS is where the direct hit on our children is coming from. WHY is that NOT being an issue talked about to parents? They have abdicated their parental duties to whomever.
Mainly because most parents are on it too!
I don’t know how many of you sell stuff on Ebay, but be aware that the Commies who run that site are collecting biometric data on you.
This is scary stuff as Ebay will be sharing your most personal data with the world, including the CCP/
According to a recent article in Cnet, “Any time you snap a photo or record a video with your iPhone, it creates information related to the file — including the creation date and your location — and then stores this metadata within your media.” Cnet said someone with access to your photos “can easily scour the metadata to identify locations and discover where you live, work, or study.”
https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2023/3/1679626824.html
https://www.ebayinc.com/company/privacy-center/privacy-notice/ebay-biometric-information-privacy-policy/
Did not know that. I will pass this on to my contacts. However, I figure that everything about me is known by our government and others already. I’m about as insignificant as anyone can be so let my data clutter up their files. I’ll just use the conveniences until it is so unsafe in our country that we are all in hiding, with our phones left in the dumpsters behind Costco.
EXACTLY!
I agree. I refuse to live under a rock with a schizophrenic fear that someone is ‘spying’ on me. I really don’t care if people know where I live, what I buy, what I eat, who I hang out with. I am secure in my faith, my beliefs, and would be happy to share them with anyone that asks. Might it result in eventual persecution? Yes, maybe – but that’s on them, not me. I’ve already been promised by my Lord that could happen, it defines the narrow road we choose to travel. Until they start camping right outside my door I’m not going to lose sleep over it.
You know….it’s a game two can play. Providing bogus information to disrupt pattern building software has been a practiced art form for a long time.
Android phones do the same thing. Log in to your Google account and you can see that you have been tracked for years. The same thing with your photos and videos. Your cell phone is a tracking device. It pings a cell tower every so often. Whenever you carry your cellphone somebody knows where you are.
Real Coffee With Scott Adams
Trump charges dropped? TikTok shows us who is bought off, CRT lowers Black test scores?
27 Mar 2023
https://www.youtube.com/live/Y_igY9u_GO8?feature=share&t=938
there IS a LONG history of USG (and other “western powers”) that make claims without a single piece of verifiable evidence against tech companies they cannot control.
here are just a few to consider:
kaspersky…do the deep dive to find out what kaspersky actually DID and the resulting reaction by the USG that was repeated by almost every western country
Huawei – it’s not just a smart phone company…do the deep dive..learn why canada even went to the length of detaining and charging (then releasing) one of the executives.
and just recently….Pinduoduo…an app you probably never heard of. It’s a very popular shopping app, on par with alibaba ….incredibly profitable….
what do all of these technology companies have in common? they are not in direct control and jurisdiction of the US western influence.
but hey….money laundering and suspicious deposits can happen at SVB California and SVB London and does not trigger a single suspicious activity letter…can fail and receive blanket bailouts.
see the pattern?
God Bless America
First, it is the Communist Party of China. Not CCP. Anytime you hear CCP, you know that you are listening to a western source.
Understand that China is not ‘imperialist’ in the manner that the US and West is. Any interaction that they have internationally has to do with economy transactions. Trump understood this, and dealt with China with regard to tariffs. For example, China is concerned about the AUKUS proposal for a nuclear sub in Perth Australia. The reason why Perth is important, is that China currently uses maritime avenues from the east toward the Indian Ocean….right past Perth. They are concerned for their imports and exports traversing this avenue. So, the US decides this is a good place for a naval base, nuclear sub, etc. First we poke the Bear….now we poke the Dragon.
As the Biden admin and West continues to fail in the Ukraine/Russia front, they are now moving to the Taiwan/China front. Taiwan is the exact same instrument to the US that Ukraine is.
WEF Young Global Leader mockingbird in Murdock Ministry of Half Truth
The truth has become much more important than an ideology so strict it becomes a religion itself.
The Biden Administration wants to be the only government, promoting lies and banning truth, on social media.
Actually, as revealed by Scott Adams today, it’s ON RECORD that some, like AOC, are BOUGHT by six figure contributions by Tik Tok (CCP) to woke organzations they’re members of. Also, Dims don’t want a total ban because they’d prefer a transfer to a US coporation so THEY can control it.
The Dan Bongino Show
Communist Dems Go To Bat For TikTok (Ep. 1977) – 03/27/2023
https://rumble.com/v2f0q92-communist-dems-go-to-bat-for-tiktok-ep.-1977-03272023.html
“They [government or NGOs ] counter true information that just happens to be counter narrative” for not just political efforts but for our HEALTH- this is frightening…almost everything we were told about Covid vaccines and Covid itsef was a lie- if we cannot believe our government what are we left with????
Exactly.
Taibbi was right, the only one in the world spurring the evil dnc, fbi, cia…Donald Trump. That is why covid was man made and installed in the presidential election year. He scares them to death, only he will expose them becaue he has no fear.
I agree re liking Taibbi. I’d get annoyed when a couple of years ago, he’d actually write an article dinging the left, and would insert a gratuitous and mildly anti-Trump papa, just to feed the wolves, which turned on him anyway!
Not papa, propaganda. Stinking autocorrect.