Tucker Carlson Sounds The Alarm About Proposed TikTok Ban and "Bipartisan Support" Behind It

Every day, more than 2 billion people use TikTok, a social media app popular among young people under the age of 24.

In China, where TikTok has its headquarters, users are primarily exposed to educational content. In contrast, American users frequently encounter “filth and propaganda aimed at children.”

Carlson suggests that if you want a productive society, you teach your kids about hard work, creativity, personal responsibility, and respect for authority.

On the other hand, if you want to destroy a society, you expose kids to “garbage about gender, ideology and twerking.”

He refers to the Libs of TikTok account, which documents the app’s influence on American youth and the indoctrination of kids by teachers through videos.

In response to criticism, China’s government and TikTok accuse anyone who questions the app of being racist.

Media outlets like Politico and CNN, which receive funding from TikTok, echo these sentiments.

Some people, from both the left and right, have even called for banning TikTok altogether. But Carlson asks if that is really the solution?

Carlson cautions against blindly supporting a bipartisan consensus. One of the bills proposed to ban TikTok, the Restrict Act, is introduced by Senators Mark Warner and John Thune.

This bill claims to protect American national security and prevent foreign adversaries from interfering in elections through apps like TikTok.

However, Carlson points out that the bill isn’t really about banning TikTok but instead aims to give the federal government more power to punish American citizens and regulate their communication.

The bill’s language is broad and vague, leaving room for the executive branch, currently led by the Biden administration, to decide who is a foreign adversary and what transactions with them are covered.

On Timcast, @IanCrossland suggests the Restrict Act, which was introduced to ban TikTok, could set a dangerous precedent:

“It gives you carte blanche to just start ending networks … this is like the Patriot Act for technology.” pic.twitter.com/HhAvxglRoT

— Human Events (@HumanEvents) March 25, 2023

If the administration deems someone to be acting in the interest of a foreign adversary, the Secretary of Commerce and the Director of National Intelligence can enforce “any mitigation measure” against them. This could include imprisoning American citizens for up to 20 years.

Carlson argues that this isn’t about banning TikTok but introducing “flat out totalitarianism into our system.” Just because TikTok is harmful to American society doesn’t mean that those trying to ban it have our best interests in mind.

The same people pushing this legislation have a history of promoting China and depleting our Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

This isn’t an effort to fight China; it’s a strategy to make America more like China, with the government controlling what we see and read, and having terrifying punitive powers.

The national security state has a pattern of using foreign adversaries to expand their police powers over the American population under false pretexts.

TikTok may be bad, but the measures proposed are not aimed at stopping the foreign threat – they’re aimed at controlling the American population.

Congress hasn’t even received a classified briefing on the alleged national security risks regarding TikTok, according to of all people far-left Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The RESTRICT Act is using TikTok as a smokescreen for the largest expansion of executive power since IEEPA.

The U.S. can’t beat China by becoming more like the Chinese Communist Party. https://t.co/03BeBwCNAk

— Financial Services GOP (@FinancialCmte) March 27, 2023

In conclusion, this situation may be another instance where the solution has nothing to do with the problem and actually degrades our free country, making it unrecognizable. We must be cautious of accepting a bipartisan consensus without fully understanding its implications.

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