I swear by all that I know to be righteous and accurate, the combined willpower of the UniParty in Washington DC is not targeting TikTok from the perspective of concern over data collection. Instead, the DC system -which is to say the USIC- is using the auspices of TikTok to expand the reach of government censorship and control information.
This is a domestic information space battle, using the guise of TikTok as a baseline for justification. How do we know? You only need to look at the mechanism of the law as it is written, the compliance section, and the definitions they are using to see they are not targeting data collection. [pdf of HR7521 HERE]
If TikTok data collection was the issue, the law would be structured to ban foreign data collection. That’s not what this is. This is a law written to give the Executive Branch the power to define any platform as “foreign owned” by the service provider (even if domestic) and the substance of the content contained and/or distributed. This has to be stopped.
Read the law as written through the prism of “Information Control,” not the prism of data collection. The law is designed to control information, not data collection.
As readers are well aware, the USIC is in alignment (I would say control) with almost all U.S-based social media platforms. This is why/how DHS is operating in synergy with those same systems. This is also the motive behind the mis-dis-mal-information definitions. Ultimately, if you stand back and look at what is being done, you see the concern of the U.S. government is not data collection, its information control.
The TikTok ban, authorized by a duplicious Legislative branch, is expanding the ability of the Executive branch to control information. Just as The Patriot Act was not about targeting terrorism, but really about domestic surveillance; so too is the TikTok ban not about foreign data collection, it’s about information control.
Again, read the law as written and you can clearly see this is a law created to authorize the agencies of the government to control information. Silence is the same as consent in the face of oppression. Do not be silent.
Thank You Sundance for keeping us informed 🙂
In addition, to information control they want a digital currency = totalitarianism (Note: A postal money order purchased with cash could be useful to donate anonymously)
Amen Alice
Nice attempt at distraction.
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AGAIN. All “she’s” got!
And with something everyone here already knows and is off subject, AGAIN.
Sundance stated above “This is a domestic information space battle” … In Citizens United (much to the chagrin of the left face of the Uniparty) SCOTUS ruled that the donations were protected by the First Amendment … In any event, the ability to spend money (including anonymously) is relevant to the domestic information space battle
Thank you for exposing yourself again bloviating with pseudo BS. 👀
Treepers ^^^^^^
Information control attempt has nothing to do with postal money orders.
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How does one donate via check or money order to the conservative treehouse???
One doesn’t.
But a Derp would dearly love the means of doxxing Sundance, n’est-ce pas?
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Touche.
And asking us, as a deflection, about the methods of payment for donations to CTH when they are clearly stated on each post on this site.
We’s be a bunch of stupid deplorables though.
Deflection upon deflection upon deflection.
It’s comical at this point.
😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆
Very.
There ya go, B.K.
Keep it light, use humor cause it really pisses em off!
Even two or three or twenty doesn’t, 🙂
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Not permitted. It’s to protect the privacy of both parties.
Republican writer and activist gets convicted and sentenced for a $25,000 contribution to a long time friend running for office in New York.
Democrat billionaires donate hundreds of millions of dollars to Bolshevik candidates year after year and that’s okay!
I’m confused?
The Politicians, actually the lobbyists write the rules, and write them to benefit themselves.
Does that pertain to the following as well?
dutchman
March 12, 2024 8:05 pm
Reply to keeler
Yes, and what you are laying out is the path to a “Universal Biometric Digital I.D. which they MUST HAVE, in order to sell people on CBDC.
Are he and keeler attempting to distract? How is this any different from what Alice Cullen posted?
Same questions directed to Black Knight.
This character is an operative, hands down no doubt here on behalf of our enemies.
The relentless purpose of which is to distract and deflect, to subsume entire conversations in threads of inanities it has itself spawned and directed.
That cited in your post is organic spreading of a conversation, an entirely different affair and generally quite a productive aspect of CTH conversations.
Thanks Fionnagh – Good catch – 🙂
Respectfully, one cannot mail any donation to the owner of this site, if that’s what you had in mind. Whether check or money order, it’s a no-go. And … I would not trust the post office. Apparently every piece of mail gets scanned, so the envelope with one’s return address would no longer be anonymous. Last, if digital currency is in place, then using cash won’t be possible, simply because cash won’t be accepted by any vendors.
Why in the World would
someone go and pay money
for a money order???
Just pick up a prepaid
Visa card at the grocery
store……..convenience store
blah…blah…blah
They are EVERYWHERE
😂😂😂😂😂😂
😆😆😆 And they are FREE.
And if I am not mistaken…
you put your name and
address on a money order.
Good grief……🤷♀️💁🤷♀️😵💫😵💫
How in the Heck is
that Anonymous?
Are you not familiar with
the Open Thread?
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Exactly and the government will shut everything down that’s not in group think
1984
I use to be very active on The Citizen Free Press. I got shut out of the site, for what I don’t know. It is not only the government that silences voices but it is also the little princes in their cyber kingdoms. If it wasn’t CFP that silenced my voice, then there’s an entity that can follow you around and shadow ban you, which makes it even more draconian.
I now have a chip on my shoulder in regard to the CFP and will speak negatively of that site when ever the opportunity presents itself.
This bill must be defeated, The Conservative Treehouse will be in their sights to silence. With Sundance having control over his own servers, he is a harder target, don’t let this law openly do what could not be done in the shadows.
Some articles were full of “TRUMP HAS SOLD OUT!” headlines because of his opposition to the bill.
Those writers forgot: ANYTHING wanted by The Manchurian Marionette and The Deep State cannot be trusted!
Even more trustworthy than Trump to advocate for us, is Biden the (the occupying puppet) to harm us.
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Now you’re deflecting away from the IC that are the actual ones harming us, again. 👀
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Like so many have attempted lately.
After Sundance has explicitly stated that the IC controlled the Legislative and Judicial branches within the last few days; AND IN THIS VERY ARTICLE STATES IT’S IC DRIVEN and not Biden nor any other politician from either side.
You’re obvious!!!!!!!
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Doesn’t The Manchurian Marionette refer to Biden???
Again you deflect from the Deep State which Ausonius included in his post.
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Don’t defend yourself, you’ll look sus! 🫱🏻
Doubling down on deflecting away from the IC AGAIN by making it about Biden and/or China.
Show us where that term is used in the article.
Since you can’t, I’ll correct it for you. It’s not The Manchurian Marionette. It’s LANGLEY’S LACKEY DO-BOY!
Treepers ^^^^^^^^^:
See how they operate.
Got news for you- you’re losing control of the narrative.
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Well done BK & Marquis!!!
Correct. If Depends is for it, we oppose it.
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They had me at “Bipartisan”; once I saw there was bipartisan support for this bill, my sphincter involontarily contracted as my hand automatically started to reach for the vaseline, and my teeth clenched worse than Nikki,…(automatic pavlovian reaction any time I hear “bipartisan!) and I KNEW I was against the bill.
“...(automatic Pavlovian reaction any time I hear “bipartisan!) and I KNEW I was against the bill.”
Precisely! That word was a bright, flashing, neon sign of WARNING!
The correct word is Unipartisan.
Just as dangerous only slightly more honest.
Nice suggestion, but the MSM will never use it, of course, for an obvious reason! 🙂
Uniparty was once unknown as well. 😁
To heck with the MarxMerdia!
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Love the patriot. And notice, he ain’t carrying an olive branch. Hope all are ready.
Nor is that an American Revolution era musket.
Just eyeballing the rifle, it looks like the rifle would be illegal for citizens to own and carry in California and a few other States. … The Globalists do want to control all the words and the “dangerous” weapons.
A quote about words and weapons from an American Expert, = General Douglas MacArthur: “Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.“
Be safe! We have to make 2024 an honest election. President Trump has to win Bigly! for an honest election to happen.
So, I’m guessing from the snip of the PDF above, the CTH could be considered a “covered company”??
That’s my take.
A shot across the bow, in their attack on MAGA media.
Despite a little disagreement, I think we can see, based on INFLUENCE as well as revenue, that MSM is being Dominated by MAGA media.
As they are NOT going to “change their ways” or make any serious attempt to restore their credibility, they HAVE to do something.
Revenue can be addressed by Corporations and Guvt. funneling $, but that will not address their loss of influence.
Hence, they MUST silence the competition.
I have long saud, whether in the marketplaceof goods and services, or ideas, Conmunism can NOT compete, and so MUST cheat.
This is just another example,…
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I’m not reading it this way. Specifically refers to a law designating adverse countries as China, North Korea, Russia, and Iran. Specifically states the purpose of the law. Is this website being hosted in one of those countries ?, and if so, why.
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Said association to be designated as determined by the President.
These are the weasel words that put us all under the gun they are forging.
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“Covered company”… controlled by (etc.)… a “foreign adversary”… are preconditions to the threat determination by the President.
Elon Musk has China issues. Does CTH?
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P.S. I don’t like the jurisdiction clause (D.C.).
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Go back and reread.
It gives the executive branch the power to declare domestic platforms as “foreign.”
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That’s not what I’m reading. Says:
(B) a covered company that—
(i) is controlled by a foreign adversary; and
(ii) that is determined by the President to present a significant threat to the national security of the United States…
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Read Sundance’s explanation.
Controlled by a foreign adversary could be interpreted by corrupt LEO as “so-and-so, though registered domestically, has known participants that are spreading mis, mal, disinformation and is therefore a danger to national security.”
Don’t think they won’t.
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Bill defines “foreign adversary” as countries designated in section 4872(d)(2) of title 10, United States
Code. China, North Korea, Russia, and Iran.
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Obtusely of course you don’t. The proposed legislation gives the president authority to decree when an entity reaches an arbitrary number of views thereby triggering an enforcement mechanism. It is a full frontal assault on speech.
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No. Precondition is that it FIRST has to come under the definition of an entity controlled/owned by a “foreign adversary” as defined in different referenced law. That law says: China, North Korea, Russia, Iran.
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This way, the US government can prevent Gab from allowing RT to post. Control.
I read articles from RT, Global Times, Al Jazeera, TheCradle, Telegram, Substack, and videos on Rumble and Bitchute. These sources sometimes make clear what is going on in the United States and in the world….a lot more complete information than what US lying media allows us ordinary folks to know.
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You guess right. Any blog with a comment section falls under the “covered company” definition.
CTH – Website where users can create accounts and share content.
The only questions would be: Does CTH have 1,000,000 monthly active users (and how is “active” defined)?
It surely exceeds that number in engagement, and I suspect that’s enough for the Derps.
Also recall the originsl income tax bill, as written and passed, assured it would only tax the wealthy and no more than 1%, i.e. the camel nose under the tent flap.
You said nothing about the hearing with Hur today. You don’t want to address how really bad the GOP house is. So you just ignore it. Yeah, that’ll work, that will make them do their job. You know how disgusting it was and how Jordan let them attack Trump. You just focus on other distractions but not what is really going down in our government. The patriots of old would be outraged it is this bad, after they won the house. They are doing nothing, and please, just forget about the J6 prisoners.
You thinking trying to pointing out things to try and prevent tyranny is a distraction?
off topic and unnecessary!
Sundance will address whatever topic he deems appropriate.
Afterall, he is the FOUNDATION to this TREEHOUSE.
Wonder if any reader here has seen any info on the Hur hearing today? Has Sundance ever mentioned it? Hmmmm.
No we haven’t because we’re on this post taking about freakin commies trying to eliminate the first amendment.
Do try to keep up and not drive off the road into an off topic ditch of distraction.
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Easy, he’s one of the good ones on out side.
But I like the Wolverining.
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I took the comment as sarcasm:)
The subject of the article is the Tik Tok law. There is a Reason that Trump backed off of supporting the legislation.
Doing analysis of events, especially in DC and related to The Swamp, takes time.
Flying off the hook does no good. As the times progress, it is going to get much more perilous. To most of the Citizens of The United States, they are in for a extremely deep shock of coming events.
These times and the coming events call for a cool head, rational thought, and deductive reasoning.
Plus plenty of ammo.
No. Collars and farmers.
Trump can be updated and corrected on this issue but remain in the dark over his newly-endorsed senate candidate from hell.
Progs get purity in their candidates and we get half measures and Trojan horses.
Something is inherently wrong from the very foundation of the west. It’s inclined to evil and failure, all intrinsic in democracy.
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Personally ranna69, while I don’t know much about your post, i admire you for saying how you feel. Its annoying always reading the ‘sunshine’ comments and never the ones of open questions and airing concerns. If we don’t ask questions or air our worries, what will we learn. Sundance does a fine job of giving up information. Tomorrow might well be the kind you want.
What the heck? Whoever it is just tried to be a squirrel to distract from the topic of TikTok banning by our government.
Who has made a sunshine comment, apart from you?
This is not the first time and I would gather not the last that someone has commented on something rather than the topic. I am simply stating that a person has a right to make a critical comment.
You are soliciting and promoting “concern” trolling.
And not very well.
Sorry Black Night but I would not try to be as great in my comments as you.
“Open questions and airing
concerns”
🤷♀️💁🤷♀️😉😉
That is why we have the
OPEN THREAD.
🤬🤬🤬
BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH
LEAD THE WAY, HERO!
Hasn’t Hanna been around here for quite some time?
Sleepers do that.
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And several others have came out of late too.
I do remember a few who were all gung ho prior to 2016 and then BAM! TDS on steroids. Really weird…
Seems like the old double teeming,..but I’ll give it a go.
ANYTHING that we SEE and HEAR, going on in the House, any public hearing, etc. is them performing and having us see precisely what they want us to see,…no more no less.
It means NOTHING.
Notice how just when they get a witness on the ropes,..and they are going in for the kill,…its “I see my time has expired, Mr. Chairman.”?
THEY set the format, THEY decide to limit congressmans time.
Canyou imagine a murder trial, Perry mason moment and just when the lawyer is about to expose who is really the murderer,…”Oh, sorry Judge, my time has expired.”?
Point being bringing up what was or wasn’t said in an “Oversight” hearing, where scandals go to die, is irrelevant.
On the other hand, BILLS they are trying to pass, and are NOT having hearings on, NOT wanting us to see,…and that would empower the FBI to shut down this site, TGP, etc…THATS relevant.
I don’t know, do I still got it?
Yep. Add DHS to FBI, both on orders from Langley.
You sound like a drunken loudmouth.
So, you got nothing to respond with and start calling names.
How very progressive and leftist of you!!!!
^^^^^^^^^
Treepers – we have another new one.
Thanks for playing (and exposing yourself)!
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Go away.
Hanna, how do you like the name game?
Hannah, Hannah, bo-bannah
Banana-fana fo-fannah
Fee-fi-mo-mannah
Hannah!
Do you sing along, ignore it, attack the singer, or change the topic to the hokey pokey or the funky chicken?
BTW. I’d like to hear about Hur, but by definition he is old news, defending why he didn’t do his job and why he brought up the Resident’s losing his marbles as justification for not doing his job.
This topic, stealing our freedoms, is a current topic and definitely needed a skewering and cleaning out of the falsehoods used to justify this proposed abuse.
I give great credit for Sundance covering this promptly. And if he decides to rehash old news Hur, or finds something of interest in the politicking, he doesn’t need us to attack him to do so.
But with all the nonsense we have seen as Congressional Hearings over the years, don’t be surprised if Hur doesn’t rise to the need of a Sundance post.
Now,
Put your left hand in,
Take your left hand out,
…
How much coverage do you need? It is being covered all over on conservative outlets like RAV. Gateway Pundit, Brietbart, Revolver, Citizen’s Free Press, The Liberty Daily, etc. etc. etc. along with all the MSM/Cable Snews. I don’t have social media, but I am positive it is being covered their also.
I, for one, am actually tired of all the coverage that will amount to nothing but more grandstanding for both side of the isle.
This article on the so called Tik Tok ban is really the first in depth report I have seen. I am glad to have the real inside information of another sneak attack proposed “legislation” that sounds good but has hidden “unintended [intended]” consequences while everyone is focused on the wall to wall coverage of the Hur “hearings.”
Good for the CTH for not playing follow the bouncing ball and giving me something different so that I can be honestly informed when this Tik Tok ” thing is discussed.
The hur ordeal was also just theatre for fundraising for a bunch of partisan, narcissistic buffoons.
Ditto to your entire post! I couldn’t even watch the grandstanding today… been there done that. So fed up with all these do-nothing hearings…. all they do is garner soundbites for political talking heads. Waste of time!
Nice!
You’re shocked, shocked, I tell you, that the government is corrupt….just shocking!
If you were expecting to see any justice being done in Congress, you’ve come to the wrong place to find a cheerleading squad.
Last I knew, this was Sundance’s site. And … you’re posting on the wrong thread. Others have already commented on Hur. Sundance will, or will not, comment at his discretion.
These types of things will be enforced by illegal alien police and army, who will relish the opportunity to take us out.
They’ll need 100 to dispose of my fat behind
Only 100? Work on extending your field and range.
They have F-16s pulling large yard carts.
My understanding is that this so called anti-TikTok law is giving the US government the power to force the sale of any social media company considered to have engaged in election interference. Likely, that’s why Trump is opposed to it: Truth Social would be the target of this law.
Our father had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
– Chief Joseph
We need to keep Truth Social and CTH.
Define “Social media company” and “election interference”.
We know they have already defined any questioning of election results (unless THEY do it!) as “election interference” ,…and they may well intentionally leave the definition of “Social media company” nebulous and so in doubt.
That way, everyone is leery of losing their platform, and so self-censors.
Recalling when Dominion started lawsuits, and caused a # of decent Conservative sights to self-censor, first on any questioning of the election, and then on any questioning of theCovid vax or mandates.
So, they would want the perception of as broad as possible an interpretation, so it was PERCIEVED as applying to CTH, TGP, Banmons War Room, and someone with a substack article, or Giullianis podcast.
Its UnConstitutional as hell, and as we enter the election year, they seem to be getting either emboldened or more desperate (or both) depending on how you look at it.
Commies in congress already defined MAGA individuals as domestic extremists.
They redefine words at will, and craft laws against the new definition.
Control to that extreme really is a reaction to fear. I never really saw it until Sundance so eloquently laid it out for us here.
The “dumb” young guys in my workplace were onto this a week ago. Admittedly, I didn’t understand. It seemed antithetical that they would support TikToc, a Chinese creation, over American interests.
They showed me TicTok videos of things which aren’t allowed elsewhere, and are convinced that TicTok is some sort of savior to truth in the USA.
I’ve been around the block long enough to question all this.
I don’t think any big tech company is working in American interests, Chinese or otherwise. It’s simply all an excuse to try and bring down the country. Everyone is trying, all at once, deliberately.
New World Order
How about the New World Ordure?
Many of us plainly see how “social media” has numbed and dumbed our society down. I’ve no idea how many controllers have perpetrated this for money/greed vs. how many for political/global control.
But this topic goes far beyond that. Our gubmint isn’t even conflating the two – it’s ignoring them both for the purpose of targeting us, rather than protecting us.
Power attracts corruption.
Sundance, you advised… warned it was coming.
-s obs !!!
The “Ugly” is “Big” yep.
” the USIC- is using the auspices of TikTok to expand the reach of government censorship and control information.”
So I guess, in a sense, TikTok is the new Covid.
So many camels, so many tents…
Very well put. And its NOT the ‘virus’ of tik-tok (coincidentally also from China!) its the vaccination (this legislation) ostensibly to protect you FROM the virus, thats the real killer!
Exactly 💯 dutchman
From your comment…
👉it’s the vaccination (this legislation) ostensibly to protect you FROM the virus, that’s the real killer 👈
😳Your brief comment response to Joe Nobody put the hammer 🔨 on the nail (Thanks also to you Joe Nobody for your excellent comment) 👍 👌
The treatment is worse than the disease.
Hippocrates advised to first do no harm, but hells bells, that was 3000 years ago…../s
Wishing I could remember more UNIX protocols and commands.
Like Jefferson, be the eternal enemy of tyranny.
Spamming this through my email. Thank you Sundance
I HATE all these F*CKERS in Washingtom!!!
China will simply retaliate and ban Apple IPHONES, Facebook and Microsoft products!
Nah, PRC may just throw a political tantrum, while re-branding and deploying another one that does the same thing.
China perfected WeChat at least 5 years ago.
Along with modern airports, high speed rail systems with personal seat assignments, and subways that broadcast in Chinese and English. A fact which should raise eyebrows.
No cheeseburgers though.
The only real American product sold? Starbucks.
Whew! Tim Cook is going to be very relieved when he hears what you said! LOL
China doesn’t use those products.
Everyone in China uses WeChat, not only for communications but payments.
Homegrown, CCP controlled.
About 20% of Apple IPHONE revenue comes from China!
Good.
If they do, that will cut into the revenues and influence of IC affiliates.
All of our pharmaceuticals come from China including antibiotics and Chemo drugs. They can simply stop the shipments for a few months…
Sure you want to go full Postal with them?
It’s not all, but a lot of them.
And some of those can be obtained from other countries also.
You are repeating what you have heard/read.
Actually much of our pharmaceuticals comes from INDIA, and its only SOME pharmas that come from China.
Mostly Fentanyl.
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thank you for this.
I am going to print out this courageous image (the second one) and tape it to my car window.
People need to know, so many are lost.
And the GOPe is rushing to hand the House to demokkkrats prior to the election
Shock. Surprise. Not.
And in the Senate, Mitt led a group of Decepticons in a presser, stating if PDJT wins they will switch parties, and presumably enough would switch to give the D’s a majority in the Senate.
Why KL MUST be PDJT’s VP, for $500, alex!
True dat .
Had a conversation with my daughter in law today.
She’s pretty up to date on things going on.
I asked her , where are you getting your info ,she said tic tok .
The kids are going to get pi i i i sed.
What happened to not passing this because it’s an “election year”.
I was thinking it was about control of the narrative, but it now seems to quash all info not flattering to the regime AND push propaganda like it has never been before.
Which means that this site and similar ones could be targeted later.
Most certainly
Sundance did say he took this out of reach for now.
As regarding technical means, yes, it’s anti-fragile, but not beyond the reach of an insane law exercised by agitated Commie zealots.
Yep! I.e. the “for now” part. The tenacles can reach far and deep.
The next six months are not going to be good.
I don’t know from good or bad, but guaranteed,….
not
BORING!
Court: FBI Must Destroy Memos Calling Antiwar.com a Threat
Ruling comes after an eight-year battle over secret surveillance of the popular website
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/court-fbi-must-destroy-memos-calling-antiwar-com-a-threat/
Probably have something similar on CTH.
Yeah, pretty sure I’ve been on multiple lists for a few decades. Good companions though.
Total control is their end goal. They would love to shut down anybody who shines a light on their corruption or criminal rackets. Truth is their biggest enemy. Keep them exposed.
Observe how hard “they” are trying to eradicate Trump.
Yes❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️
Daniel 12:4 KJV
Precisely, Miss P. And “they” know it.
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“The need for control is a reaction to (their) fear(s).”
Hubris will be their downfall, BK.
Meanwhile in another part of the totalitarian forest….
Coming to a locale near you if Trump doesn’t succeed.
See Canada, my friend.
I’ll leave it to you to provide your own words.
Mine are unprintable.
Not hard to imagine exactly what types will go out of their way to be offensive and in people’s faces in order to elicit responses that can be profitably deemed hate.
Most likely to transpire in locations where good sane people gather, such as at Church.
I’m leaning less towards Trudope being a son of Castro to him being his defective clone.
In this regard, a catchy tune…Sympathy for the Devil, Rolling Stones, early 70s if IRC.
It’s not enough to comply, you must love
StalinJoe Fallin.Suspended, banned, and deleted: Censorship war between Big Tech and Republicans, in their own words
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gop-censorship-war-big-tech
This bill will be useful for us to identify the phonies pretending to be America first. We know about a lot of them, but it will be interesting to see if there are any surprises.
Indeed.
Each monsterous bill they pass takes more of our freedoms away, steals our money, and puts us one step closer to unbridled tyranny. The government is attacking WE THE PEOPLE in every way they can and this is another arrow in their despotic quiver.
Amos Miller, Donald Trump, Peter Navaro, Desusa, and all the J-6 are the targets of those arrows.
Death-by-a-thousand-cuts is just as fatal.
No Democrat has been subjected to the same “equal treatment under the law” that those listed persecuted Republicans have. Clinesmith only got probation, for submitting a forged document to a federal court. The “Somolian” Representitive married her brother to skirt the immigration laws.
No more $1.5 trillion spending, power grabbing, spying on us bills…This must stop!
“Instead, the DC system -which is to say the USIC- is using the auspices of TikTok to expand the reach of government censorship and control information.”
I have the same concerns about the push for age verification legislation.
Currently such legislation is being touted as necessary to restrict children’s access to adult websites. In principle I have no problem with that goal, but no one is questioning how age verification will be authenticated.
The answer to that question: anonymity on internet will be eliminated. You will have to verify your identity to verify your age. At first doing so will be required only to access adult entertainment, but once the mechanism is in place- and more importantly, accepted as “normal” by the general population- it will be required for all internet activity.
It is easy to understand how age/ID verification can and will be abused by weaponized government agencies.
Yes, and what you are laying out is the path to a “Universal Biometric Digital I.D. which they MUST HAVE, in order to sell people on CBDC.
“The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
(Joseph Goebbels: )
It is so Joe!
Truth or Consequences in the normal world becomes Truth and then consequences to the DS.
“Just give the facts Mam.” Joe Friday
It is utterly ridiculous that all the talk about the past ‘deals’ with China, ‘they’ are already here, that all of a sudden ‘we’ got to do something about TikTok!!
I have no interest in the platform, yet some great information has circulated on it. And that is the issue; the open, constant moving, exchange of information. Nice expose!
Why do we even Pretend we have ‘Laws’ anymore??? Seriously, like without the HR7591 passing the FBI/CIA/DHS/DOJ or whichever Bureaucracy wouldn’t still spy or shutdown/Censor a Website??? Come on, Man……
My rule is that if they say they are protecting us, it’s not that at all.
Messaged my rep. She’s a democrat, but I don’t know what else I can do aside from talk to others and let them know.
My rep is a Republican but he jumped ship before the end of his term to take a cushy job as the President of a university.
Kind of in limbo now until the special election on the 19th. Will that be too late?
I find it incredible that I can type this message and it goes to my local humor “pop” then goes to my provider’s isp, and the. Onto a bigger isp probably Chicago. Then across the country and even the world. Amazing how this is all done through glass fibers buried in the ground from house to hub to pop to data center. Amazing. Glass tubes. Technology is so darn cool
TikTok is the 14th most trafficked web site on the planet.
Twitter is the 5th most trafficked web site on the planet.
etc., etc., etc. …
He who controls them, controls the world
Has anyone heard the rumor that Rumble may try to acquire it?
Rumble CEO Chris Pavloski offered to purchase TikTok if it agreed to separate from its Beijing-based parent company ByteDance, as demanded by American lawmakers. Pavloski extended the offer in a Tuesday letter addressed to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew: “Rumble is ready to join a consortium with other parties seeking to acquire and operate TikTok in the United States.”
So did the guy from Shark Tank. Kevin O’Leary
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/shark-tank-host-offers-to-buy-tiktok-to-make-it-an-american-company/ar-BB1jI6Pk
and my grandson informs me beavis and butthead got married.
tik tok is not my bag. neither is facebook.
at the same time banning tik tok leaves too much of the field to fb for those who use these services.
so while it makes my skin crawl to say this i’m against banning the commie bas$&@ds tik tok.
So a President cannot take documents that belong to him as a former president and properly store them in his lavish, security-protected, compound but he can unilaterally decide that an internet/social media site should be punished for Wrong Think/Wrong Speech?
The IC, not the POTUS will be the ones making the decisions in ‘his name.’
Not one person should have Fakebook or Twatter or instagram or Ticktac or any linked social media platform because you are the programmer while being spied upon.
Thank you, Sundance!
UniParty in Washington DC = Vampyroteuthis Infernalis.
The gubment’s preoccupation with getting rid of TikToc is so that they can CONTINUE to “TikTake” our Freedoms, our ability to search for knowledge, our ability to find truths – it’s that simple.
…”has more than 1,000,000/mthly users”…
…or 15x that?!
If they get rid of tick tock, its bye bye Hannity, and you gotta admit that makes it tempting, lol.
I admit it. 😉
I knew there had to be more to this. Thanks, Sundance!
Push push. Nudge nudge.
The Patriot Act was NOT about foreign terrorists or espionage, it was about domestic control.
The Russian sanctions were NOT about limiting Russias commerce, they were /are about confining and limiting Americans commerce.
The tic toc ban is NOT about limiting data collection (would that it WERE!) its about the control of INFORMATION.
CONTROL, CONTROL AND COMTROL; The grasping for more and more control, is a responce to FEAR.
Bullying, intimidation, coercion, insisting on the imprimatures of authority, all are clear signs of INSECURITY.
And WE must keep the pressure up.
And expose them by revelations and ridicule.
Global ranking by internet traffic:
FaceBook 3
Twitter 5
TikTok 14
Rumble 461
TruthSocial 5,356
Obviously, FaceBook and Twitter are the big prizes.
Facebook is for over 30’s, for Marketplace and virtual reunions.
Tik Tok is the mind mover platform for the youth.
Twitter spaces is the forum the DS really wishes did not exist.
Other than trash collection, I don’t trust what the government says or does.
Wow, you trust the gummint for trash collection,…how gullible you are!/sarc and no offence intended.
I think the main target is Twitter / X.
Musk is absolutely killing the DS, even though there’s still censorship on the platform.
As I have said before, Musk got eaten by a frog.
Kek
(Actual Elon tweet quote)
Wow, he really said that, huh?
Things that make me go, 🤔.
OK – STOP the presses. I just posted something where I said Adam Schiff has a lying tongue AND I have been banned/blocked until I send my email and then retract my comment. NEVER — I will 🛑 using X effectively RIGHT NOW! Sundance you now are truly my only source — I will miss Julie Kelly and some others but hey, God gave me the sign I needed — avoid people, places and things that bring nothing to the table and cause you harm! Adam Schiff is FINALLY good for something 🎉
^^^^^^^^^
Treepers – tell me how Elon the Magnificent is doing with free speech now.
TERRIBLE! Truth has no agenda BUT X and Social Media Do! Thank you Black Knight for always being the voice of reason.
What I fail to understand is, just because the Communist Democrats have their knickers in a twist about getting rid of Tiktok, why do they think we care as much about their issue as they do?
They live in a special bubble where their concerns actually mean something to them. With the rest of the world, not so much.
TikTok is the bait.
We are the target.
Not a situation to take so lightly.
Right? I understand that it’s just another Patriot Act backdoor scenario, but I still have a really hard time getting excited about whether Tiktok lives or dies. I guess in the end, I’d vote to keep it just to PO the Communist Democrats.
Only the DC machinations concern me in this regard.
As far as the Chinese menace, I propose we first address that by removing their puppet from the WH.
Aha, I just had an epiphany. 💡
This is the reason why Trump supports Tik Tok.
I knew there had to be a good reason.
Now many sheeple will wake up with this? Those with TDS are salivating at the idea….
Biden youth vote, watch out below
backdoor … FRONT DOOR watch what happens.