I don’t understand exactly what you’re trying to refute. That’s just Blinken saying that the decentralization of media is one of the key drivers of the changes in politics during the past decades.
Which is objectively true.
The Congressional Research Service has put out 3 reports in the past year about this, which I can’t link here because they’re PDF files, but you can find by googling “CRS TikTok”.
According to the CRS, Chinese laws require that TikTok Have an internal communist party organization, and by law must have a member put on its Board of Directors by the CCP.
The only one saying anything about TikTok in the video you linked is Romney, who didn’t write the bill, and will soon be retiring, let alone his estrangment from his party, I don’t think he has the influence to be a trustworthy source on why banning TikTok has broad bipartisan support.
I’m sure some of the Republicans may be thinking of things such as Gaza when trying to ban TikTok, but that’s not an explanation for the swathes of democrats who have come out in support, saying that China is their reason.
The Hill? Lol.
I don’t understand exactly what you’re trying to refute. That’s just Blinken saying that the decentralization of media is one of the key drivers of the changes in politics during the past decades. Which is objectively true.
The Congressional Research Service has put out 3 reports in the past year about this, which I can’t link here because they’re PDF files, but you can find by googling “CRS TikTok”.
According to the CRS, Chinese laws require that TikTok Have an internal communist party organization, and by law must have a member put on its Board of Directors by the CCP.
Even TikTok’s parent company (Byte Dance) has admitted that its employees have spied on journalists while trying to purge the company of leaks.
So I can understand you taking apart an article, or someone’s commentary about an interview from a source you find untrustworthy, I really do.
But this is them… in a video…
Honestly does it really matter who posted the video at this point? The dude said it, on video, who cares if it’s from the hill at that point?
If you are still arguing that the tiktok ban isn’t about Israel then we are done with this discussion are we’re on an impass
The only one saying anything about TikTok in the video you linked is Romney, who didn’t write the bill, and will soon be retiring, let alone his estrangment from his party, I don’t think he has the influence to be a trustworthy source on why banning TikTok has broad bipartisan support.
I’m sure some of the Republicans may be thinking of things such as Gaza when trying to ban TikTok, but that’s not an explanation for the swathes of democrats who have come out in support, saying that China is their reason.
The US government has been trying to ban TikTok for 3 years even before October 7th. So I can’t see any way that this is solely or primarily intended to crack down on local support for Palestinians.