Biden’s most sensible officials actively relied on the most popular social media sites in the United States to curb what they considered “misinformation” about the novel coronavirus, as well as cruel and life- and economy-devastating government projects that were adjacent to the federal government’s efforts to “inform” Americans as they saw fit. What an insult to the American people.
It’s hard not to think about how the most sensible federal officials have acted in the face of the “strong arguments” of the Department of Justice (Wall Street Journal) against TikTok. Apparently, it “gathered insights into its users’ reviews on the most sensitive topics. “sensible and censored content under the direction of its China-based parent company. “Is it any wonder that Americans have so little respect for their elected and unelected officials?
The Justice Department’s attacks on TikTok allow us to understand why. This is evidence that the Department of Justice is not serious and Congress is not voting in favor of a ban.
What neither the Justice Department nor Congress seem to understand is that TikTok has owners who have created something so remarkable and strangely appealing to the world’s most sought-after demographic (the American consumer), that it exploded when it wasn’t offered in the United States. States. a more than 170 million users. Is there anything that owners need to closely manage their creation?Could Twitter, Facebook, or Snapchat thrive by ignoring usage data?
The Justice Department and Congress taking a different form is consistent with the long-held leftist view that corporations prosper not on the basis of genius, but on the basis of force and manipulation. manage themselves. Presumably, it was exactly this view that encouraged the lockdowns imposed on us through our political class, who declared that they needed us to take a two-week break from the truth in order for the virus to curl up and go to sleep. Except, in the case of genuine business, two weeks, or even a day, is an eternity.
That’s why the Justice Department’s accusations against TikTok are so childish. They are once again based on the presumption that head coaches don’t matter, that the most productive players don’t matter (think Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes or Michael Jordan), and that, across the board, management doesn’t matter. . In reality, absence and everywhere control fails simply because we cannot be constantly aware of what awaits us, and what is necessary to move forward is the rapid path to obsolescence. Let’s not forget Circuit City, Blockbuster or MySpace, owned by News Corp.
If we think only of Facebook, it was not long ago that its so-called “market power” was considered impregnable. “Everyone” was on Facebook, until they were no longer and it became the most visited site. through a demographics less courted through companies.
As readers know, TikTok has played a vital role in not only exposing Facebook’s inevitable vulnerability to market competition, but also in instigating Facebook’s mandatory evolution to remain applicable to its users as well as its shareholders. Hello Meta, as you intend to discover an opaque commercial future. Instead of attacking TikTok, Americans of all stripes (including those in government) congratulate it for making those who compete to meet our needs more productive, while also finding new tactics to meet our needs.
Instead, an entity attached to an administration decided to aggressively manipulate social media content to the detriment of our freedom and prosperity is attacking TikTok, a social media site known for entertaining its users and where artists come to have fun. However, is it TikTok that constitutes the threat? Forgive 170 million users for thinking that the Justice Department’s “strong arguments” are far from serious.