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Senate Bans TikTok

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TikTok’s watching you and Comrade Xi is watching TikTok.

It doesn’t happen often, but this week the U.S. Senate voted unanimously to ban TikTok from all federal government devices (https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-unanimously-votes-to-ban-tiktok-on-government-devices). Ten states have already done so.

Spoilsports! Just because TikTok is closely tied to the Chinese Communist Party, and spies on millions of Americans, and sends all sorts of private information about us to their masters in Peking… Is that anything to get upset about?

Anyway, it’s a bill in the Senate. To become law it has to pass the House and then be signed into law by SloJo. Which is where it’ll get interesting.

The Chicoms own the Biden family. What will he do if they order him to veto the bill? They’ve probably got enough dirt on him to bury him. Veto it or sign it–either way he’s in deep doo-doo.

And there’s another bill shaping up in the Senate for a total ban of TikTok nationwide.

Sen. Josh Hawley called TikTok “a Trojan horse for the Chinese Communist Party.” Ya think? It’s got some 100 million users in the U.S…. and the Chicoms have access to much of their personal and private information.

I’m betting the bill never makes it to the so-called president’s desk.

Book Review: ‘The Tyranny of Big Tech’ by Sen. Josh Hawley

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Senator Hawley wants Congress to rein in the oligarchs and world government wannabes who own and operate Big Tech–before they can stomp our constitutional republic out of existence.

https://chalcedon.edu/blog/the-tyranny-of-big-tech-by-sen-josh-hawley-book-review

The tech giants tried to suppress this book, but Regnery has published it and it’s doing very well. In fact, he’s already made a success of it just by delivering his message. These are things that rich and powerful bad guys don’t want us to know.

Hawley analyzes and explains the various dirty tricks Big Tech pulls on the American people. The light bulb clicks on: “Oh! So that’s what they do with all that information they have on me!”

As yet the people can’t stop these abuses. We are waiting eagerly to support powerful competition that’ll draw millions of customers away from the existing tech monsters by not spying on us, not selling our private information–and by not censoring us!

Because in addition to getting richer than anyone has ever been before, the Big Tech honchos are fully committed to reshaping the world according to their own mad utopian vision of it.

May the Lord confound them as He confounded the builders of Babel.

 

The Evil Empire Will Fall

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I’ve been trying to decide how to review Senator Josh Hawley’s book, The Tyranny of Big Tech. He wrote it because he thought we need to do something about it before we’re all enslaved.

Why was I confused? He says Congress has to do this, Congress has to do that, etc. All well and good. But he also says Big Tech has infinite wealth and can buy off all of Congress if it has to and still have plenty left for birthday presents.

While I was talking with my editor on the phone this morning, it hit me.

It doesn’t matter whether Hawley succeeds or fails to mobilize Congress! He’s a U.S. senator, they have to take him seriously. They tried to prevent publication of his book–and failed. That’s gotta hurt. So yes, they’re going to take him seriously. They’re going to try and shut him down. Just wait’ll he runs for re-election. He’ll be suffocated by Big Tech’s money.

Yeahbut, yeahbut! It’s not Sen. Hawley who’s going to take them down. By standing up to Big Tech as he has, Hawley has made himself a target. He’s got their full attention.

But while they’re busy trying to knock him into yesterday, who knows who else might be sneaking up on them? Yo, Zuckerberg–you guys have made a lot of enemies. Playing God is a sucker’s game. Sooner or later God’s going to send some little thing, or some little persons that you never noticed, to cut you down.

When the Lord stops laughing at you, sunshine… it’s over.

This Book Is Scaring Me

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Amazon.com: The Tyranny of Big Tech (9781684512393): Hawley, Josh: Books

I’ll be reviewing this book for Chalcedon, so I’m reading it now and it’s scaring me. Big-time.

Never in history has so much wealth and so much power been acquired by so few, to the detriment of so many. The few, of course, being the oligarchs who run Big Tech.

Senator Josh Hawley’s book was originally suppressed, but then Regnery agreed to publish it. It doesn’t seem like Google, Facebook, or the other plutocrats want Americans to read it.

Y’know what’s really scared me? Both the European Union and the U.S. government have, from time to time, fined Google et al billions of dollars (or euros) for various illegal practices–and what happens then? If they can’t beat the rap by buying off regulators, Big Tech simply pays the fines and continues on its merry way to global domination. Because to them, $5 billion is chump change. Their wealth is virtually infinite. They’ll do whatever they please, and laugh at the consequences.

We, the people of the world’s nations, are in dire peril of losing our liberty. Big Tech offers us assorted goodies in return, and we’ve found those hard to resist. Like, who wants to be left out of the next big thing?

Another scare: Big Tech watches and keeps track of literally everything you say and do and read online. Those assorted electronic gizmos that we like so much, and can’t do without–they spy on us. And Big Tech uses that unimaginably vast store of information to manipulate us. Ultimately, to control us. Pick our leaders for us. Own our whole economy. Own our institutions. And no one has found a way to stop them.

Oh, they’d stop if some of their grand panjandrums went to jail instead of just having to pay fines with money that they’ll never miss. But who’s going to try, convict, and jail them? Whom have they not bothered to buy off?

This is bad.

But it’s also the Tower of Babel all over again, and you know how that turned out.

Pray: O Lord our God, defend us. O Lord our God, avenge us. In Jesus’ name and by the power of Jesus’ name, Amen.