États-Unis : interdire Tiktok reviendrait à «se tirer une balle dans le pied», selon Pékin

By Ron Paul, MD

The Ron Paul Institute

April 30, 2024

President Biden's campaign will continue using the popular social media site TikTok even though the president supported a provision in the military aid bill he recently signed forcing TikTok's parent company ByteDance to sell TikTok within 270 days. If ByteDance does not sell TikTok within the required time, TikTok will be banned in the USA. Biden's continued use of TikTok to reach the approximately 150 million American TikTok users, is not the only example of hypocrisy from politicians who support the TikTok ban.

By: Abdulaziz AL-ANJERI

In a profound twist, the United States, a herald of free-market capitalism, has taken a step that seems to contradict its core values by banning TikTok. This move, framed as a safeguard against national security threats, actually uncovers a deeper discomfort: America's struggle to maintain dominance in the digital sphere - a domain it invented and once ruled uncontested.

Mais il exacerbera inutilement les tensions entre les États-Unis et la Chine, qui sont déjà bien proches d'un conflit.

Source : Responsible Statecraft, Jake Werner
Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises

Les tous récents efforts de Washington pour interdire TikTok illustrent le profond décalage qui existe quant à la façon de penser la Chine.

Le Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (loi sur la protection des Américains contre les applications contrôlées par des adversaires étrangers), projet de loi qui progresse rapidement au Congrès et qui vise à exclure TikTok, ne répond pas aux préoccupations fondamentales que de nombreux Américains partagent concernant les applications de médias sociaux comme TikTok, telles que le respect de l'anonymat et la protection des données personnelles, le ciblage des enfants, ou la nature addictive des médias sociaux.

Georges RODI

La guerre contre TikTok est repartie pour un tour.

Le président Trump a eu l'honneur de lancer une première bataille, en essayant de forcer la vente de cette application à un consortium étasunien mené par le groupe ORACLE.

La raison ? TikTok était l'application la plus téléchargée du moment.
Que la Chine puisse faire mieux que les GAFAM sur le sol des EU n'était rien de moins qu'un affront intolérable.

Kit Klarenberg  

On March 13, U.S. lawmakers overwhelmingly voted in favor of a bill forcing TikTok's foreign owner, ByteDance, to sell up or face a stateside ban. Its advocates claim the popular video-sharing app is a Chinese Communist Party-controlled national security threat that could be weaponized as a tool of surveillance and manipulation if it isn't already. Yet, despite the anti-Beijing hysteria running wild, many haven't swallowed the bait, with even some typically pliant https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1768382962360283559|mainstream outlets alleging a far darker rationale.

Hugo Dionísio

TikTok not only destroys Silicon Valley's monopoly by competing furiously with its platforms, it also steals their space, which was previously shielded, as the White House believed.

In the aftermath of Vladimir Putin's resounding victory; after an election with a very high turnout (with a lower abstention rate than is usually the case in the West); an even higher approval rating for the current president of the Russian Federation; the contradiction between the real information, witnessed and verified by countless international observers, and the information broadcast on the White House-dominated communication spectrum, forces us to put into perspective an entire information battle taking place in the virtual universe.

Hugo Dionísio

A derrota imposta pelo TikTok à narrativa sionista não deixa de estar relacionada com o papel de Israel na segurança do petrodólar, da hegemonia e da sua derrota pelo mundo multipolar.

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No rescaldo da mais que provável retumbante vitória de Vladimir Putin; após um acto eleitoral com participação muito assinalável (com uma abstenção inferior ao que se passa em regra no ocidente); uma aprovação do actual presidente da Federação Russa, ainda mais elevada; a contradição entre a informação real, testemunhada e constatada por incontáveis observadores internacionais e a informação veiculada no espectro comunicacional dominado pela Casa Branca, obrigam-nos a colocar em perspectiva toda uma batalha informativa que ocorre no universo virtual.

Par MEE

Des journalistes, experts des droits de l'homme et utilisateurs des réseaux sociaux affirment que la décision d'interdire TikTok est promue par des législateurs pro-israéliens

Après l'adoption par le Congrès américain, à une écrasante majorité, d'un projet de loi visant à interdire l'application TikTok, les utilisateurs des réseaux sociaux se sont indignés en ligne et ont lié cette décision à des groupes pro-israéliens qui tenteraient de freiner l'essor des contenus pro-palestiniens sur la plateforme.

By Daniel McAdams

The Ron Paul Institute

March 18, 2024

On Wednesday, March 13th, a bipartisan group of US Representatives voted to give the US president the power to remove any website, computer or mobile application, or even service provider that the president determines - without due process - is run by "a person subject to the direction of control of a foreign person or entity" as long as that foreign person or entity is declared an "adversary" of the US.

By Matt Taibbi
Racket News

March 16, 2024

It's funny how things work.

Last year at this time, Americans overwhelmingly supported a ban on TikTok. Polls showed a 50-22% overall margin in support of a ban and 70-14% among conservatives. But Congress couldn't get the RESTRICT Act passed.

As the public learned more about provisions in the bill, and particularly since the outbreak of hostilities in Gaza, the legislative plan grew less popular.