Sean Davis @seanmdav
This TikTok bill language is so broad and poorly drafted that it will absolutely be used to shut down media the U.S. government doesn’t like, just like the Patriot Act was used to spy on innocent Americans who hadn’t done anything wrong.
Remember how the entire U.S. intelligence community moved to have the New York Post banned for reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop under the guise that it was all Russian disinformation? The U.S. intel community knew the laptop was legit and authentic, but they lied about it anyway and used their lies as a pretext to ban media outlets they didn’t like.
Remember how the same corrupt intel community similarly fabricated and spread the Russian collusion hoax, and how its minions accused anyone who accurately reported on the hoax of being Russian stooges? The language of this TikTok bill would give those same crooks and liars the authority to shut down and criminally prosecute and penalize media outlets by merely accusing them of being “subject to the direction” of an adversary. What does that even mean?
How do you think a government which accuses anyone who criticizes its corruption or garbage foreign policy of being a traitor will use that language? Having lived through the Iraq WMD hoax, and the Russiagate hoax, and the COVID natural origins hoax, and J6, and the myriad Ukraine hoaxes, do you think your government will judiciously use that language as narrowly as possible, or do you think it will use that language to persecute its domestic political opponents?
At this very moment, @FDRLST, @DailyWire, and @KenPaxtonTX are having to sue the U.S. State Department for illegally using its authority to combat foreign propaganda against its domestic political opponents. Our own government is already abusing laws and programs that exist only to target foreign media to instead target American media outlets for critically reporting on misdeeds by the U.S. government.
This isn’t a theoretical or academic discussion. For decades, our government has given itself massive new police power, ostensibly targeted at foreign enemies, only to immediately weaponize those new powers against the American people.
What on earth makes you think these same people will magically stop abusing the new powers they keep giving themselves?
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https://congress.gov/bill/118th-cong...bill/7521/text
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