Unless you would like the Peopleโs Republic of China to rule the world, do not allow your children to have TikTok.
If they disobey your parental edict, take away their cellphones and computersโitโs that serious.
Donโt wait for Congress to do anything about this. Thatโs like Waiting for Godot. Do it yourself.
Take parental responsibility, something sorely lacking in our country. Do it for yourself, your family, and the United States of America.
This isnโt because of the data that TikTok mines, as bad as that is.
Thatโs mined everywhere, including by our own government, their intelligence agencies, the FBI, and multiple tech companies that weโve learned work in cahoots with them.
Privacy no longer exists, and itโs hard to imagine how it will be recovered.
But the real problem is worse than that.
The overweening danger of the Chinese-owned company, its real intention, as Gordon Chang just explained on Newsmax and should be evident to all, after TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chewโs evasive testimony before Congress, is mind control.
Thatโs your mind, my mind, and, most of all, your kidโs mind, with 150 million Americansโnearly half the countryโcurrently on TikTok.
TikTok is among the most pernicious forms of propaganda ever inventedโperhaps the mostโbecause itโs often subliminal and well-hidden as a โlifestyleโ choice that few notice or even wish to.
Via its proprietorial algorithms, TikTok does this by encouraging and magnifying the most self-destructive trends in our culture. The platform has plenty of inadvertent allies in this mission among our young, many of them being so-called influencers.
In this way, TikTok is radically increasing the spread of all aspects of what we call โwoke,โ from transgenderism and hyper-sexuality to a pervasive sense of victimhood and depression unseen in our society probably ever.
Drug use and suicide, often closely associated, are way up. Thereโs a general feeling of hopelessness in our culture, particularly among the young.
If you wanted to destroy a country without firing a bullet, what better way could there be than to get them addicted to an app with those inherent values?
Byย Roger L. Simon