This article from CJR updates the government efforts to close down the CCP affiliated platform as the bill to do so winds thru Congress and seems stalled in the Senate at this point.
We honored the Homeland Security alert issued last year and have steadfastly avoided using the platform to build our traffic or post from it if we can.. We believe it has evolved into the most subtle weapon of war in that it’s “influence” in prompting our most impressionable younger generations to do BEYOND IDIOT and potentionally destructive stuff is unparalled in history.
Furthermore, we are appalled at the forceful middle finger mentality being employed by the Chinese owners (ByteDance) in regards to intellectual property rights (read UMG music and movie rights) and the blatant violations being exercised by discreetly altering “content” bypassing digital protections and tabulations that create revenue streams due to artists and creators.
We find it insightful that the James Corden late night talk show replacement “AFTER MIDNIGHT” on C the BS which recently debuted earlier this year with the stellar Taylor Tomlinson as a most entertaining host and is branded as an Internet game show awarding fake points to win ridiculously worthless prizes utilizes Tik Tok in a major but not exclusive way.
Seeing as Stephen Colbert has a key executive producer role in the show as well as an ownership stake and his BLATANT support of the Leftist cause (even going so far as broadcasting HIS talk show in tandem with the Democratic National Convention from right down the street from United Center at the Auditorium Theatre here in Chicago in August) leads us to believe the content decision to incorporate TIK TOK in a major way in the ever changing bits that constitute the “flow” of the show speak volumes. We shall see….