The US wants to be China, but with extra steps and under the curtain.

See, in China, companies have these rules for their ownership and market enterprise;

The US government passed a few bills, one of which is the following;

H.R.7521 – Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act

Which means that a foreign company has to give up control to the US government or US based companies to be controlled by US interests. Not so free market;

In short, the Government wants control over social media, like they have with Meta (see lawsuits with RFK jr and Meta, and Joe Rogan Podcast with Mark Zuckerberg) and Twitter (see twitter files).

The US government wants to reign in on individualism and the narrative control, by suppressing free speech on apps like Tiktok. They want people to be on apps that they can control and dictate.

If it’s a national security risk, then why are politicians allowed to create TikToks?

The same politicians on Tiktok that also bipartisan supports the banning of TikTok by passing the bill? One of a handful of issues that both sides of the political ‘parties’ decided to agree upon?

Even both President Trump and Previous candidate Harris has a Tiktok account.

Isn’t it a violation of first amendment rights to remove a platform that hosts content from people in political seats? Like the issue when Trump blocked a person on a social media platform infringing on the first amendment?

But they can decide to remove the entire platform? Is that really free market? Is this really capitalism? Is this really constitutional in free speech?

In terms of Economic hardships

Are we really doing this in the interest of the public if more than Half of the US uses Tiktok and about 7 million or more small businesses rely on Tiktok for income?

Is this new pseudo-national security risk more important than the economic livelihood of many?

7 million small businesses of about 34 million small businesses;

Which is about 20% of small businesses in America,
About 11.9 million employees
7.8% of the GDP of small businesses

I mean, it’s not nothing;

And about $7 million in sales to US per day (competing with that of Etsy and Amazon’s market share);

We’re going to enter into a world of more disconnection, oppression, silence, and economic hardship. This is stripping the livelihood of a good chunk of America, without reasonable alternatives.

Because you can’t just be as successful on Meta or other platforms without heavy money expenditures. The algorithms are designed like that.

Just as a note, 170 Million users are US citizens. That’s Half of the US. This is a big platform.

Is this for the betterment of the American people?

An app that is projected to grow and double in the subsequent years? More users, more US revenue, more ad Revenue?

Sounds like the US doesn’t want competition and better markets.

And all of these figures don’t include the individual influencers making money from their content, which on other platforms like Twitch or Youtube is becoming more and more demonetized to the point where more people make money on Pornhub than on Youtube.

Do you really want the prospective youths of America to make their money on Pornhub over Tiktok?

As a side note

Other countries citizens are going to miss the unhinged Americans with their visceral takes and craziness. Sad day for the world. Where our freedom and crazy can’t be expressed.

Americans are proudly known for being unfiltered throughout the world. Less perfectionists on average. And people are already sad about the US population being moved from this global app.

It seems like the US want’s a specific style of Globalism, one from the top down and not the bottom up. Tiktok is a globalistic unified app, bridging many people’s nations together, and chanting things like ‘Free Palestine’. . . Oh, I see why we’re bi-partisanly banning the app now.

Also, side note, everyone on TikTok is going unhinged over this ban. That’s a lot of Americans.

Also, side note, Mark Zuckie, going on Joe Brogan, was a political posturing move to clean the PR image of META to recoup Tiktok users, but obviously the Tiktok collective hivemind is sniffing that shit out.

In Closing

US govt; “Sell us your innovative technology to us or get banned”

Is this really how history wants to remember the ‘free’ country and markets of the United States? Is this the right precedence to set? Is China really more free than the US?

Sounds like Technocratic Fascism.

The US sounds like the national security isn’t directed at China, but rather dissenting speech from US citizens collectivizing towards action. It appears the government doesn’t want free decentralized people to find other facets of money and freedom of expression, to be an individual. They don’t want free exploration to connect with aspiring artists, and threaten the music or hollywood industries. They don’t want free radical talent to slip through the contracts of golden handcuffs and real discovery. Sounds a lot like the Stock Market. The algorithms elsewhere suppress individual authenticity, and discovery. It sounds like Control, Control, Control.

And using the new legislation, Tiktok is just the start. They’re likely to target more companies. Growing the behemoth of the state monopoly. Even if Tiktok isn’t banned, if that legislation is still standing, it sets a dangerous precedent.

Monetary sovereignty also applies to the individual, and if the government keeps closing up ways to make money and a means of living, then people are going to have to find another way. Or find a way to remove the regulations themselves.

Fight, Fawning, or Flight.

Are we sure we want to play this game of American Roulette? A 6 chamber fully loaded? A semiautomatic with a full clip? The American way?

*Not Valid Financial, Legal, Life, or Any Advice