Webinar | TikTok – A Weapon the CCP Would Never Allow Us to Wield
A CPDC WEBINAR
TikTok – A Weapon the CCP
Would Never Allow Us to Wield
Friday, January 24, 2025
1:00-2:15 p.m. ET
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Here’s a thought-experiment:
What if the United States had a means of directly reaching half of the people of China, without the permission, or censorship, of the ruling Chinese Communist Party?
What if our government used algorithms to make this vehicle powerfully addictive to its users in the People’s Republic and to provide news and information designed to undermine the CCP and promote America and its values?
What if the U.S. government could also use it to collect personal health and other data about every one of its Chinese users and to surreptitiously turn on their phone’s camera and microphone to spy on others?
Finally, if the Chinese Communists ever allowed such an American system to be established, once it became clear what the United States was doing with it, do you think they would tolerate its continued operation?
As New Yorkers say, “fuggedaboutit.”
The CCP would never permit us to do to their population what they are currently doing to 173 million men, women and children in this country with their application known as TikTok. Actually, they won’t even allow their own people to be subjected to TikTok’s insidious and subversive content.
The fact that the Chinese Communist Party has gotten away with weaponizing this potent instrument of information and political warfare is simply gobsmacking.
So is the fact that President Donald Trump – who wanted to prevent it during his first term – has now intervened to postpone enforcement of a law requiring Chinese divestiture of TikTok, passed with overwhelming bipartisan support and unanimously endorsed as constitutional by the Supreme Court.
Uphold the law, Mr. President!
The Committee on the Present Danger: China will host a webinar from 1-2:15 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, January 24th to examine all these issues. Register to join us at PresentDanger:China.org.
Moderator:
- Frank Gaffney, President, Institute for the American Future; Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China
Panelists:
- TBA
WEBINAR RESOURCES
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