Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) Chairman Mark Warner is very concerned about the U.S. government inability to control, restrict and censor the information within the TikTok social media platform.
As outlined in this Face the Nation interview with Margaret Brennan, Chairman Warner states it is very alarming that China may permit content that is against the interests of the U.S. government to control it. Additionally, by law, the Chinese platform “has to be willing to turn over data to the Communist Party“.
Now, if you find yourself thinking, how is this different from U.S. laws that force Twitter, Facebook, Apple or Google to turn over user data to the DOJ/FBI, well, you are probably too smart for this regime narrative and should officially consider yourself a dissident American intellectual. Just sayin’.
The bottom line is very simple when you look at TikTok from the position of the U.S. surveillance state. The Dept of Homeland Security can only monitor TikTok content, they cannot do anything to modify, remove, censor or control the content, as a result TikTok exists as an existential threat. WATCH:
[Transcript] – MARGARET BRENNAN: We go now to Senator Mark Warner, the Democratic Chairman of the Intelligence Committee. He joins us from King George Virginia. Good morning to you, Senator.
SEN. MARK WARNER: Good morning Margaret.
MARGARET BRENNAN: It was a pretty intense five hours of questioning of Tiktok CEO this past week. Your bipartisan bill has White House support, and it would deal with Tiktok by giving the Commerce Department power to review and potentially ban technology flagged by US intelligence as a credible threat. Will it pass in a divided Congress?
SEN. WARNER: Well, Margaret, will – we’re now up to 22 Senators. 11 Democrats. 11 Republicans. We’ve had strong interest from the House. I think they wanted to get through their hearing. And clearly while I appreciated Mr. Chew’s testimony, he just couldn’t answer the basic question. At the end of the day, Tiktok is owned by a Chinese company Bytedance. And by Chinese law, that company has to be willing to turn over data to the Communist Party. Or one of my bigger fears, we got 150 million Americans on Tiktok average of about 90 minutes a day, and how that channel could be used for propaganda purposes –
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right.
SEN. WARNER: -or disinformation, advocated by the Communist Party.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But has the White House made clear to you that they want this bill to pass and do intend to ban it? Or is a forced sale more likely?
SEN. WARNER: Well, I think the White House is very in favor of this bill. And clearly this is not just a phenomenon in America. We’ve seen Canada act. We’ve seen the UK act. Matter of fact, the Dutch said, if you’re a media person, please get off TikTok, the Chinese are spying on you. India’s already banned the bill- banned it outright. We give the Secretary of Commerce the tools to ban, to force a sale, other tools. And end of the day, one of the things that may lead to a ban is the Chinese Communist Party has said they felt like the algorithm, the source code that resides in Beijing, is so important that they’d rather see a ban than give that source code up to be placed in a third country, which again, I think speaks volumes about the potential threat that this application poses.
MARGARET BRENNAN
Well, the Commerce Secretary though recently said that the politician in her thinks a ban will mean losing every voter under 35. Forever. And if you look at use of Tiktok I mean, just last week, President Biden showed up and celebrity videos on Tiktok from the White House. Plenty of lawmakers, including your Democratic colleagues, Senator Cory Booker use it. A number of House progressives use it, given how important this platform is to Democrats, can you actually get TikTok taken care of before 2024 when you might need it for political outreach?
SEN. WARNER: Margaret, I think there’s a lot of creative activity that goes on on Tiktok, but I absolutely believe that the market- if TikTok goes away, the market will provide another platform and at the end of the day, that could be an American company. It could be a Brazilian company, it could be an Indian company. All those companies–
(CROSSTALK)
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right, but the Commerce Secretary is saying there’s a political cost if it goes away–
SEN. WARNER: –operate within a set of rules that–
MARGARET BRENNAN: and that’s what she fears.
SEN. WARNER: I think –
MARGARET BRENNAN: And you’re empowering her.
SEN. WARNER: Listen, I have met- I have met with Gina Raimondo on this issue. I think she will make very clear that she believes TikTok is a threat as well. And listen, if at the end of the day, you could end up with a forced sale. And that forced sale also makes sure that the core algorithm, the source code resides someplace different than China, that could be a outcome that would be successful as well. At the end of the day, you cannot have American data collected. Nor can you have the ability for the Communist Party to use TikTok as a propaganda tool.
MARGARET BRENNAN
60% of the company is owned by other investors, including US firms. So is this a policy that you really need to address with Americans to stop them from investing in companies like this?
SEN. WARNER: Well, that’s one of the reasons why I think our approach – the RESTRICT Act says – rather than dealing with Tiktok in a one off fashion, or a few years back, it was Huawei, the Chinese telecom provider or years earlier, the Russian software company Kaspersky. We need to have a set of tools, rules-based so they can stand up in court, Tiktok would still did get his day in court, even under our law that says, if there’s a foreign technology from a place like China and Russia, and it poses a national security threat, and one of the things we also require is that the intelligence community has to declassify as much of this information as possible. So it’s not simply like, hey, trust the government, we got to make the case. And I do think at the end of the day, if it ends up with a ban, there will be other platforms for the literally millions of influencers and folks who like this kind of video platform, they’ll still be able to get it.
MARGARET BRENNAN
Very quickly. They’re a number of Republican lawmakers who plan to meet with Taiwan’s president when she is here on US soil. Are any Democrats, will you?
SEN. WARNER
You know, I I’m not sure when the president of Taiwan is coming to the United States –
(CROSSTALK)
MARGARET BRENNAN: -they announced March 30 and again in April.
SEN. WARNER: Okay, I’m not sure. Well, if there- if there’s an invitation made to me and other Democrats, listen, I would like to have that meeting as well. I think protecting and ensuring the security of Taiwan is in America’s national interest.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you, since you sit on the Senate Banking Committee about this rolling turmoil that we are in. You are one of 16 Democrats who voted in 2018 to change those Dodd Frank banking regulations regarding the mid-size banks, which obviously has been scrutinized, because that size bank is where we have seen recent issues. I know you’ve defended the vote in recent days. Do you think there needs to be more regulation of mid-size banks, now?
SEN. WARNER: Well, Margaret, Tuesday, we’re going to start getting the facts at the Senate Banking Committee. And if it ends up that a stress test that would have been applied to these mid-size banks would have spotted this, of course, I’d add additional regulation. I think, though, what it appears to me is two things happened. One, basic banking regulation. If this has been only a $5 billion bank, not a $200 billion bank, should have spotted the fact that this management, and the regulators missed basic banking 101, the interest rate mismatch. And two: one of the things that I think we also have to look at is this was the first time we’ve had an internet-based run. There was literally $42 billion taken out of this bank in six hours. That’s the equivalent of 25 cents on the dollar. And I’d like to know why some of the venture capitalists spurred this run in the first place.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Interesting topic. I want to ask you, though, as well, about your relationship with SVB bank, and political donations. USA Today had a great big list of all of the entities SVB’s political action committee or CEO had donated to. It’s the DNC. It’s President Biden’s 2020 campaign. Senator Schumer says he’s going to give back the money he received or donate it. Representatives Maxine Waters, Ro Khanna have returned the donations. You received $21,600 from their political action committee, nearly six grand from its CEO. Do you feel any pressure to give those funds away? Is there a point to it?
SEN. WARNER: Well, first of all, Margaret, campaign contributions have never affected my policy choices. They never have, and they never will. We’re going to hear the facts on Tuesday. And if there’s malfeasance at the bank, of course, I’m gonna give the money back.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay. Senator, before I let you go, I want to just follow up on what you shared with us when we spoke back in January, when you were very frustrated that the administration wasn’t sharing more information about the classified materials improperly held by the current president when he was out of office and the former president. You’ve been briefed. Any more clarity on this? Any further information?
SEN. WARNER: We need more information about these documents. And more importantly, we need to make sure that what the intel community has done to mitigate the harm. And we’re still in conversations with the Justice Department, the administration’s position does not- does not pass the smell test. We’ve got a job not to go into the legal ramifications, but to make sure that the intelligence community has done what’s right. And we’ve got some additional tools, we can restrict some of the spending. We’re in active conversations with the Justice Department. But we’ve got to get those documents
MARGARET BRENNAN: Specific to what just happened this week in Syria, with the Iranian-aligned groups attack on U.S. presence there. Are you satisfied with the amount of information that’s being shared? What is going on? And should there be a more robust response from the Biden administration to stop these kind of attacks?
SEN. WARNER: Well, we’ve got a few thousand troops there in Syria and Iraq. I’ve been briefed by the intel community. Protecting, frankly, the Kurds who are finishing wiping out the remnants of the ISIS forces, and, frankly, helping guard some of the ISIS prisoners. It has been a dangerous area, but I think the administration’s response has been appropriate. So far.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Some of your Republican colleagues have publicly complained, though, that the attack that was fatal Thursday morning wasn’t briefed to Congress until Thursday night. Does that concern you? I mean, Iran was a key topic being discussed on the Senate floor that day.
SEN. WARNER: We have no illusions about the malicious nature of the Iranian regime, and how they help these groups in Syria, Iraq, and frankly, across the whole region. But in this case I do think the administration briefed us in an appropriate way. And I think the response to the missile fire, or the drone attack from one of these Iranian-sponsored groups. That’s a dangerous part of the world. But our troops are doing something that’s terribly important in terms of making sure that we eliminate the final vestiges of ISIS.
MARGARET BRENNAN: All right, Senator Warner, thank you for your time today. Face the Nation will be back in a minute. Stay with us. [Transcript End]
Senator Warner is correct, an example is World War Reddit (Ukraine). Creating the background narrative for World War Reddit is more complicated if TikTok users are showcasing the theatrics of it….
https://twitter.com/Travis_in_Flint/status/1639995034610151425
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2023/03/investigative-reports/cia-and-mossad-linked-surveillance-system-quietly-being-installed-throughout-the-us/
Unit 8200 is not our friend, research it.
How so? You don’t say.
Unit 8200 of the Israel Defense Forces is probably the world’s best school for entrepreneurship.
THE primary function of the tech-and-intel spy unit (“Israel’s NSA”) is to quietly protect the tiny country from its numerous hostile neighbors. From decrypting computer codes to intercepting electronic signals, from cybersecurity to cyberwarfare.
How does Unit 8200 stack up next to the NSA?
The major differences between the two agencies and countries. America is a superpower and has interests all over the world. Israel does not have interests all over the world. It’s small, resource-limited and therefore it doesn’t have a wide agenda like the U.S. It has to focus and prioritize — and they are very, very good at that. There are areas in the Middle East where 8200 is better than the NSA. It’s not just technological – it’s not just ‘listeners.’ The NSA has the capability to listen to every conversation in the world. But you need to understand the nuances of language and cultures.
I wonder if Mark and James Wolfe exchange Christmas cards each year?
SSCI Vice-Chairman Rubio has had a front-row seat and access to information, which may never see the light of day, about SSCI Chairman Warner’s interactions with the convicted criminal and philanderer James Wolfe who was once the Director of Security for the SSCI. Has Senator Rubio been questioned on this matter and all things Russia, Russia, Russia?
Warner says…”At the end of the day, you cannot have American data collected…”….except by the American government, Senator? (Such easy follow-up questions, but nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…….)
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻!!!
Warner is so obliviously obvious to it all.
He really seems to think his stank is covered.
That’s what I say he’s obliviously obvious to it all.
Obviously that means he’s oblivious.
Obviously !! 😊
Exactly…. it would be frustrating if we did not admit to ourselves this is a pantomime.
Yes. Their inability to avoid broadcasting who they are is helpful and, to some extent, contributes to peace of mind on the trail.
At least pantomimes are usually amusing.
This is more akin to “plate-spinning” except it is false narratives they are spinning, and no matter how many fall to the floor and crash, they simply race around the stage, spinning more.
Now, they are starting to slip and fall on the detrius of previously fallen false narratives, or like Bragg digging up ones that didn’t break and spinning them once again.
At least the plate spinners WERE entertaining, and would eventual admit defeat. And, their silly performance didn’t endanger the audience.
truer words few have written!
God Bless America
you beat me to that quote (and eloquent followup question). as in: …If it ends up with a ban, there will be other platforms for the literally millions of influencers and folks who like this kind of video platform, they’ll still be able to get it.
From companies that the U.S. government forces to hand over data, instead of the evil ccp, which pays off most of our government workers in a position of relevant influence. Pays off with millions, if not billions of dollars and perks. Ask “biden” about it. Oh yeah, the only ones asking those questions are we serfs and we ain’t in the club.
But, but, but China bad… junta good….
Every chi-com that comes into this country is a politburo employee. The chi-coms coming here are not coming from the rice paddy. Blow tic -tok up.
What a fraud
All of our data and then little cards from every store collects everything you buy or do down to actual phone conversations.
Yes your actual phone conversations are captured and listened to by the 4th branch when they want.
Everything! E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G!!
This is why I repeatedly call for throwing out all those cell phones.
On 12/16/23, it will be the 250th Anniversary of the original Boston Tea Party when the People protested by dumping 342 chests of tea into the harbor: https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party
We should all throw our cell phones into the dump and disconnect from as many things as we possibly can. So many modern appliances in our own private homes are being listened to and recorded…somewhere. We have an entire generation that thinks that being ‘watched & listened to’ 24/7 is ‘normal’. We the People MUST take a STAND!
That’s why I never carry a cell phone in town. It stays on my counter. If someone wants to get in touch with me, they will leave a message, write a text, or call back later.
You are ‘tracked’ whether or not you carry your cellphone directly on your person.
The problem with the cellphones is not just where you may bring them, but what they actually reveal about you, where ever you happen to be using them.
Cellphones are most useful to those who wish to limit or focus the content to censor what you see and also to track your interests on every single site that you visit. Email accounts, text messaging and online purchases are also linked to us via our cellphones.
Social media reveals a treasure trove of information about you, your family and associates.
Just a hunch, but I also believe that cellphones and WiFi units are hardwired to emit high-frequency signals pitched to disrupt our mental acuities. I notice the signals mostly at night, when it is otherwise quiet.
I haven’t had a government tracking device, er, smart (?) phone, in ten years.
It’s a bit of an inconvenience at times, but worth it.
Look a studies on radiation. https://www.center4research.org/children-cell-phones-phone-radiation-risky-kids/
Yes…they are horrible and 5G will only make it so much worse. I have an old flip-phone that I may take with me for a long trip due to my age and just in case an emergency should arise. But even for that, I’m considering not having it. I’ve been told that even if you wrap these things in foil, or use the ‘pouches’ that are sold, that once you turn the cell on it downloads everything anyway. They didn’t have to design these things this way, but they did, and that’s intentional. We’ve got to break out of this ‘electronic prison’.
Get a good pouch, not aluminum foil. The GPS will buffer, so you have to block the GPS signals also. Remove your SIM card if possible.
The removal of the SIM card might work…TY! Will research.
An article today
STEP 21 – INSTALL A LANDLINE PHONE
https://globalwalkout.com/step-21/
I have a landline and always use it. Thankfully, I live in a valley in the woods and can’t even get ‘cell reception’ without and in-home tower or connecting to wi-fi. Though we probably can’t stop the 5G installation on phone/electrical poles, I’m on a 3 mile long private road so low priority. They won’t even install ‘cable’ here because it’s not profitable for them to do so. We are limited to only one electric co. (a co-op), one phone co., and two satellite TV stations. I won’t say it hasn’t been difficult, at times, when all power has been out (happens frequently due to fallen branches/trees), all phone lines down, etc., for days…but folks ‘adjust’. Scary, yes (especially in the dead of winter), the 1st few times. But after one has been though it enough times, it simply becomes an ‘irritation’. Once it is realized that one CAN survive without such things (different Folks have different means in doing so), it’s just ‘life’.
Do you carry a credit card or a drivers license? If so, those document are encoded and scanned by various ‘smart’ technologies set up throughout our communities. Credit cards establish where we are in real time and what we are purchasing. Many of these credit cards tie into an email account.
In certain places the technology reads drivers licenses and license plate tags as we move about our daily lives. Smart technologies are well equipped to read all the encoded documents we carry.
We are fast getting to the point that these documents are no longer necessary to track our movements. Airports, entertainment venues and other buildings now use ‘facial recognition’ technology to scan all the faces coming and going..
Their next step is to “read” the Luciferase blood markers that they inject directly into the bloodstreams of their unsuspecting serfs.
I’ve been wrapping my wallet in foil since 2010. I’ve been asked about it in stores and it has given me the opportunity to explain this to Folks.
Thankfully, he is only a medium level influencer in the overall structure of mis-information and manipulation, that does not, however, give him a pass for above average stupidity.
The Human Race has survived thousands of years without all these ‘gadgets’, and it’s always the same ‘selling points’: ‘It’s for your convenience’; ‘It will make your life so much easier’; and the biggest lie of all: ‘It’s for your safety’. I remember when computers 1st came available for the public. They were going to make our lives so much easier, no more paperwork, etc. How’s that working for y’all? Only the People can out a stop to this, and it’s only done by taking a ‘stand’…not engaging, cutting the cord that’s wrapped around our throats. I’ve heard some say that even though it would be hard, very hard, an EMP may be a blessing in disguise.
The “best” device to carry at all times?
IMHO, a ZIPPO lighter.
Beats a cell phone, hands down.
LOL! I still have my grandmother’s old lighter.
Add a decent pocket knife.
That is an excellent point, Jude, and I have to agree, because although this would set society back 200 years, more or less – heh – everyone would have to stand on the merits of the work they would be able to contribute to their community. Which would be more than difficult for 80 % of society, as practical self reliance without arrogance is not a common reference now.
Yes…it’s sad to me how dependent Folks have allowed themselves to become on gov, and all of these gadgets. I had one very scary time one winter (though I knew I had at last one neighbor’s I could go to if necessary). I was alone at my ‘camp’ and the power went out for 3 days…the phone lines were down for 5. I had stuffed a towel up my steel chimney over the summer to lower any odors from entering my home and when I went to remove it to start a fire, the stupid ‘cap’ was frozen on. I had to wait for some sunlight the following day to defrost it a bit so I could loosen it. Once I could get a small fire started (had to keep it low because of no blower working), things began to improve. But that 1st 24 hrs. was a real eye-opener. It was a ‘blessing in disguise’ though because it got me motivated to find ways to survive without all the ‘modern conveniences’. Sometimes, we need that boot in our hind-ends. LOL! My dependence is on God alone and I know He will either provide or take me Home. I’m good with either.
Finland was already approved and Sweden too very soon.
Sweden no longer has the woke regime it had a few years ago when it was attacking Israel and Hungary.
Sweden is held up by Turkey. Turkey tried to play hardball due to some Swedish Kurds.
Turkey needs new US jets so it will approve Sweden too .
Hungary was smart to play these disagreements against Finland which now happens to have a feminist government.
But Hungary will be never in Finlands way because the two nations have a 1000 year historical link and consider each other ethnic cousins .
Perhaps this comment would be best posted on the thread about Hungary which precedes this one?
Lots of newcomers lately; could have been just a mistake.
The conundrum…
“The politician in me thinks you’re gonna literally lose every voter under 35, forever (if we ban TikTok)”
-U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/09/is-banning-tiktok-bad-politics-some-us-officials-think-so/
Yep, and they’re (Dem Cabal) already mad and don’t trust Twitter to protect their inner-posts. Gee, where is that new company “Jack” promised them?
that is the basic puzzle confronting every tyrannical state–to avoid losing support when a popular aspect of culture is banned. one good answer is to hijack and “win” each election. And / or ban elections themselves and abandon all pretension of being a “democracy” or republic. Where are we in this picture.?
It’s not just that they can’t control it, it’s that it is very popular and addictive with the younger generation.
It represents a flank against the banker-driven propaganda and censorship machine.
Imagine young folks watching that average black guy pushing back against Dr Fauci and the mayor of DC while they were going door-to-door promoting the clot-shot?
Devastating!
(Watch that if you haven’t)
Maybe patriots should set up a similar internationally situated and redundant platform, with links for deeper dives beyond the short videos..
We need a truth media machine built for what we are up against, to crack open mental doors in 15 to 30 seconds.
I think China is onto something, otherwise there would not be so much squirming in DC.
They can’t get access to everyone’s info on TIKTOK, so its not allowed! Never been on it, but power to their elbow!
Even if it’s true that US government has no access to Tik Tok accounts at this time, the Chinese CCP sure as hell does! There is no social media that is safe from prying eyes!
People should understand that their info is monitored on the social media platforms themselves, their information becomes the property of the platform, which can then be hacked and sold to anybody at any time.
every time this disgusting piece of sewage crawls out of the manhole cover, expect a major lie… they are only pissed because they can’t control tiktok and their narrative like they have twitter for years. Control everything is their MO…. fascism
what is pathetic from 30K feet is that we as US citizens are being hunted by enemies both foreign and domestic. We have Chinese TikTok on one side , then facebook/google/twitter etc on the opposing flank. That’s the rock and hard place.
Aww
mark warner….
Both China and Russia don’t mutilate their children’s bodies and instruct boys to be girls and girls to be boys. Maybe life under our conquerors will be an improvement over those in charge of the US today? At least they protect their children better. Obedient to authority, but at least it’s authority that recognizes biology.
Sad but true.
More and more is going up on all the conservative social media about TikTok being such a threat.
It’s funny how that happened all of the sudden. Are they just concerned that they cannot control the, ahem, “disinformation” posted on TikTok in favor of PDJT and MAGA?
Yes.
Well it’s a Chinese owned company Mark….so…..
and appropriately, Neil Oliver asks the question, “Who watches the watchers, and who guards the guards” in his weekly monologue:
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I can picture horse mouth hanging out at singles bars trying to pick up women once he gets booted from office because he is no longer useful. A total waste of good oxygen.
Maybe horsemouth and horseface will hook up.
And who do the put uncharge…..a dumb Democrat….
Mark Warner is just stupid enough to put his hat in the Dem ring of fire for President.
An amusing story, from a long gone era;
Back in the 50’s or early 60’s, ..back when people in PHX AZ. slept with doors unlocked and (in the summer) windows open,..
Back when the downtown area was a nice place to live,…
Back when Jimmy Durante was a big name star,…
“The Snozz” was in PHX, staying and performing at a “downtown” Hotel.
A reporter for the local paper “The AZ. Republic” lived several blocks from said Hotel,and was awakened at 3:00 in the a.m., by a banging noise.
He went to his window, and saw an old man with a cane, walking down the sidewalk.
Each time he came to a tree, the old man would pause, and bang on the tree 3-4 times, before moving on.
“Hey, old man,..WHAT are you doing, it’s 3 A.M.! ” yelled the reporter.
As the old man turned, his prominent nose was obvious in profile.
“When Durante don’t sleep, not even the BIRDS sleep!”
Durante suffered from chronic insomnia, you see.
Thanks for that.
You’ve been a sitting Senator for the WHOLE TIME that the USA was giving incentives for manufacturing to move to China via the USAID Department. Were you asleep or simply paid enough to vote FOR it?
CHINA IS NOW OUR MASTERS! GET IT?
Do something stupid Senator and they cut off our pharmaceuticals!
Do something even more stupid and they cut off ALL metal products and tools.
THEY HAVE YOU BY THE GONADS SENATOR!
Hey Mark Warner forget about tik tock. How but uploading all the thousands of hours unedited from January 6 to a website so that everyone can view it.
Prosecutor Admits DC Police Officers Acted as Provocateurs at US Capitol on Jan. 6
A federal prosecutor admitted in court papers that three D.C. Metropolitan Police Department undercover officers acted as provocateurs at the northwest steps of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The admission came in a March 24 filing before U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras that seeks to keep video footage shot by the officers under court seal.
Prosecutors accused the case defendant—William Pope of Topeka, Kansas—of an “illegitimate” attempt to unmask the video as part of his alleged strategy to try the case in the news media. Pope filed a motion to remove the court seal on Feb. 21.
“The defendant is not entitled to ‘undesignate’ these videos to share them with unlimited third parties,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Kelly Moran. “His desire to try his case in the media rather than in a court of law is illegitimate, and the government has met its burden to show the necessity of the protective order.”
Videos long hidden under court seal have become a major topic, especially with prosecutors disclosing in a number of high-profile Jan. 6 cases the involvement of multiple FBI informants.
Pope is seeking to lift the court seal on the undercover video as part of his drive to obtain full access to video evidence held by the government. Pope is representing himself in the criminal case being prosecuted against him. At a hearing on March 3, Judge Contreras seemed sympathetic to Pope’s motion to unmask the videos.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/prosecutor-admits-dc-police-officers-acted-as-provocateurs-at-us-capitol-on-jan-6_5148808.html
Another side show.
Pathetic.
Why does China get to offer all of their apps in the US and our companies get censored in China? In my mind, as usual, we have one stupid /traitorous government.
“We don’t like competition when it comes to spying on Americans!”
– warner
Yup…this is why they are going nuts..tic tok has quite a big group in opposition to the deep state… they have no control on what is going on there.
Warner may well be the most corrupt member of the US Senate and that takes in a lot of corruption.
“I shall make them conform, or I shall harry them out of the land. ” King James
Tolerance of dissent, throughout human history, has been rare and precious.
Those with power see tolerance of dissent as weakness, and therefore a threat to themselves.
Hillary, with her basket of deplorables speech, was announcing she would certainly not be tolerant of dissenters.
All leftists see the absence of visible dissent a sign of strength, and therefore the suppression of dissent is a virtue, and dissent can be dismissed as “divisive” (a word leftists love to direct at their opponents).
Since our leftist politicians are mostly in the pocket of the Chinese, any rules against dissent instituted to suppress Tiktok, will surely be employed against any and all but Tiktok.
Wray, the guy who doesn’t know if FBI undercovers were involved on J6, all of a sudden is certain of something:
Makes me want to join Tik Tok. That suggests to me that the US government is a greater threat than even the ChiComs! I should banish the thought. Are we that far gone?
Not true on they can’t get tiktok to censor and monitor. They were all in on the 2020 election censoring as I have previously posted here on many occasions along with the receipts to prove it. I assume this also applied to china virus too.
Perhaps in other areas they wouldn’t play ball, but they are gonna’ side with china’s interests over the swamp idiots any day.
one “possible” outcome of this tictock takedown, is that there is a possibility that CCP will respond by illuminating all the data collection that happens by US owned tech companies.
sort of like what happened with twitter for example.
lets say the US forces a sale…goes to lets say…um a private owner in taiwan.
then the US decides to start pressuring the new owners to “comply”…
this might just turn out to become another twitter release wiki about the nature of the USG to control and collect .
stay tuned..this is going to be interesting.
God Bless America
ps. tik tok is by far one of the most disgusting unmoderated scummy social media platforms. It takes the freedom of expression and rapes it before your very eyes. I oppose prohibitions on free speech…but there are children who use this app and there are barely any controls in place and no moderation to prevent them from seeing the most disgusting pornography…lurid incestuous suggestive context…humans exposing themselves who appear to be well under age…and get paid alot of money doing it. I have my own personal opinions about pornograghy and they are very conservative and restrictive on principle. But what tik tok is doing is really beyond the pale. And no one seems to even be interested in that aspect. Which really should be the number one issue on the table for our so called law makers. But then we know they don’t really care about young impressionable human beings. most of them advocate murdering children in the womb…gender mutilation…bypassing parental authority…decriminalizing dangerous drugs…open borders that accelerate slave trafficking, sex trades, dangerous drug trade, arms trafficking..So I understand I am expected far too much from washington DC that doesn’t really give a crap about human dignity. They only seem bothered if there is a money grab. Sad, but true.
God Bless America
Kinda hard for politicians to line up and demand something be done about the porn on TikTok when teachers throughout the nation are shoving it in the faces of children in public schools.
HATE MAGGIE BRENNAN!!
“Now, if you find yourself thinking, how is this different from U.S. laws that force Twitter, Facebook, Apple or Google to turn over user data to the DOJ/FBI, well, you are probably too smart for this regime narrative and should officially consider yourself a dissident American intellectual. Just sayin’. The bottom line is very simple when you look at TikTok from the position of the U.S. surveillance state. The Dept of Homeland Security can only monitor TikTok content, they cannot do anything to modify, remove, censor or control the content, as a result TikTok exists as an existential threat.”
So, we should STUPIDLY focus on their desire to ban it because they can’t control it or use data from it INSTEAD OF ON THE THREAT POSED BY THE CCP USING TIK TOK FOR NARRATIVE CONTROL, PROPAGANDA, AND CULTURAL DEGRADATION IN THE US?
I don’t give a damn about any data they might have. THAT is not the threat. Allowing a MORTAL ENEMY to have that kind of domestic influence is absolutely IDIOTIC and as bad as having that Manchurian Candidate CCP tool resident in the White House. Tik Tok should be outright BANNED.
Have you ever seen what the CCP ALLOWS on Tik Tok in CHINA?
The same should be done here NOW!
20 dead Indian soldiers versus how many US COVID dead and damaged, jab dead and damaged, fentanyl dead?
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/here-are-the-countries-that-have-bans-on-tiktok/articleshow/98949332.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
INDIA
India imposed a nationwide ban on TikTok and dozens of other Chinese apps, including the messaging app WeChat, in 2020 over privacy and security concerns. The ban came shortly after a clash between Indian and Chinese troops at a disputed Himalayan border killed 20 Indian soldiers and injured dozens.
The companies were given a chance to respond to questions on privacy and security requirements but the ban was made permanent in January 2021.
They want to be able to control it and censor it due to there being a crap ton of positive Trump postings on that platform….
Amazing. The gall.
30 years of unlocked American doors for China, encouraged by the grubby hands in the UniParty and now they decide to take a stand? The horse is gone, the barn door is gone, the barn has burned down and the deed to the property is lost….and now, they notice China is a problem ?
The dingleberry’s second best quote from the interview:
SEN. WARNER: Well, first of all, Margaret, campaign contributions have never affected my policy choices.
I laughed
So an app controlled by the mass murdering CCP allows more free speech than ones controlled by the illegitmate kleptocracy in occupation of DC?
While I completely understand the issues around data gathering by American/Globalist Social Media Platforms, is that a reason to not ban the CCP controlled TikTok, along with every purchase of anything American by any Chinese? And when MAGA gains control of this bastardized government, we can go after the rest of them….
I wonder how many FISA warrants the horse faced traitor and the DOJ/FBI have out on TikTok ?
I laughed out loud hearing that the NSA warns that TikTok spies on Americans. They really think we are that stupid.
Well the DemScum invited China into the US and now they can’t get rid of them. Even if you delete this crap it probably has embedded itself in your device–for those who are not tech savvy.
There is a saying: He who rides a tiger cannot dismount.
The Chinese beast is here to stay unless drastic action is taken.
Zbigniew Brzezinski….A major player in the rise of China using USA capital….his idiot daughter plays legacy media genius on anything and everything….
The United States Chamber of Commerce is anything but…
They should be imprisoned.
Mark Warner would better serve Americans by asking why low life trash such as himself are elected members of…cough…Congress…
“We need to have a set of tools, rules-based so they can stand up in court”
What a crock. Then selective enforcement can apply the rules to some but not others.
“Rules-based” should be a red flag. They will make a rule where everything is illegal, then the Soros prosecutors can sink their teeth into whomever they fancy.
Warner is a pos…A deceitful liar, thief and receiver of bribes…but ie lobbys
SD-“Now, if you find yourself thinking, how is this different from U.S. laws that force Twitter, Facebook, Apple or Google to turn over user data to the DOJ/FBI..”
I’m sure Warner is fully aware of the verity of sundance’s insightful comment but is “Maggie” Brennan also aware of it or is she too inculcated or fixated on what
she believes to be Warner’s “brilliant statesmanship” to see the hypocrisy or similarity?
This references bits of the RESTRICT Act introduced in the Senate that reveal it is actually not limited to TikTok and similar, nor limited to foreign entities.
https://centipedenation.com/first-column/the-restrict-act-a-uniparty-bill-introduced-in-the-senate-could-be-another-patriot-act/
Looks like yet another contrived crisis being used to take away more constitutional rights.
Time to contact legislators again, ASAP.
I’ve been reviewing this same issue.
I forwarded it to matt taibi…
see if he is willing to take on a more complete focus on the 1A theme.
God Bless America
I’m more worried about google and freakbook monitoring the truth.
“as a result TikTok exists as an existential threat.”
Curious how much longer Elon can play around before Twitter again becomes an existential threat to them.
““has to be willing to turn over data to the Communist Party“.”
Warner might have a little more credibility if he were as concerned with the millions of Chicom dollars flowing to the Biden mob as he is with TikTok.