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    The Political Class’s Ban of TikTok Is Much Bigger Threat Than TikTok

    Freedom and its fruits always and everywhere run roughshod over propaganda

  • TikTok creators react to Biden signing ban-or-sell law: ‘We don’t want a TikTok ban’

    TikTok creators weren’t surprised to hear that President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that could lead to a TikTok ban, but they’re close to unanimous in their belief that the federal government is wrong to push the legislation forward. For almost four years, since July 2020, a potential TikTok ban has been under consideration by members of the federal government. A bipartisan bill to ban TikTok in the U.S. was first proposed in December 2022, and the version that was just signed into law has...

  • US Again Moves to Ban TikTok Via New Bill; What Does This Mean?

    NEW DELHI, (IANS) – The US House of Representatives has once again passed a new legislation that may lead to a ban on Chinese short video making platform TikTok in the country. In March, the House voted in favor of a bill seeking to ban […]

  • US passes revised bill that could ban TikTok within a year

    The US House of Representatives once again voted on a bill that could ban TikTok. The updated version now requires ByteDance to sell the social media to a US company within one year instead of six months. Failing to do so would result in TikTok's ban from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. TikTok preemptively posted a statement on X, saying the ban would "trample the free speech rights of 170 million Americans, devastate 7 million businesses, and shutter a platform that contributes...

  • Trump Tells 'Young People' to Blame Biden if TikTok Gets Banned

    Even though former President Donald Trump enacted an executive order to ban TikTok while he was in the White House, he once again says he now opposes barring access to the popular social platform, writing in a post to Truth Social on Monday that President Joe Biden would be to blame for the possible restrictions."Just so everyone knows, especially the young people, Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok," wrote the former president. "He is the one pushing it to close, and doing it...

  • TikTok Ban in US Pushed: ByteDance Ordered to Sell within a Year

    On Saturday, Congress advanced efforts to ban the widely-used video-sharing platform TikTok. The House made a second attempt to pass legislation aimed at tackling what lawmakers argue poses a national security risk.In a decisive 360-58 vote, the House of Representatives approved a bill containing a provision that would compel ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, to sell the company within a year. If the Chinese tech firm fails to follow the order, it will be removed from app stores in the US.However,...

  • Trump seeks to pry ‘young’ voters from Biden over TikTok ban brewing in Congress

    Former President Donald Trump is attempting to tie brewing legislation potentially banning TikTok to President Joe Biden as he courts young voters. The House advanced legislation Saturday included in the foreign aid bills, forcing the sale of TikTok from its Chinese owners within a year to avoid a ban in the United States. The Senate […]

  • Trump Warns Voters, 'Especially the Young People,' About Biden's Plan to Ban TikTok

    At one time toward the end of his presidency, Donald Trump's administration pushed for the sale of TikTok out of the hands of the Chinese Communist Party. Trump, at the time, was wholly correct in his desire to do so - the problems with the app and how it subverts American interests and American youth are well-documented.

  • Victoria Richards: What my 12-year-old told me about WhatsApp groups changed my mind about a ban

    Never has the generational divide been more apparent between me and my children than when it comes to how to create a group on WhatsApp; swiping down on the home screen to turn down the brightness levels; or figuring out why the iPad is so slow (top tip: because you have too many tabs open – take it from my seven-year-old).

  • 'A new level': Trump mocked for pushing law to ban something 'already against the law'

    Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are holding a big press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Friday where they will reportedly propose a bill that was already passed 28 years ago in 1996. According to USA Today, the men will demand passage of a bill that would prevent immigrants from voting in an election. The problem is that this is already a law on the books. "All non-U.S. citizens, including unauthorized immigrants, are ineligible to vote in federal elections. The Illegal Immigration...

  • New York Man Pleads Guilty to Sending Threats to State Attorney General and Trump Civil Case Judge

    NEW YORK (AP) — A New York man has pleaded guilty to sending death threats to the state attorney general and the Manhattan judge who presided over former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud case, prosecutors said Thursday. Tyler Vogel, 26, of Lancaster, admitted to one felony count of making a terroristic threat and one misdemeanor […]

  • Trump’s ‘Peers’ On N.Y. Jury Get News From The Propagandists At Google, TikTok, New York Times

    The seven jurors selected so far largely get their news from the same left-wing media that have spent years disparaging Trump.