Sunday, March 31, 2024

Did Critics Read The TikTok Bill?

In DC, perhaps we need to introduce RTFB: read the frigging bill.

Does the TikTok bill, which passed the House on a 352-65 vote, ban TikTok? No. Can it be used to target Elon Musk and X/Twitter? No. To answer these and other questions, let's read the frigging bill.

First, if you've described this bill as a TikTok ban, then you've clearly not read the bill.

It forces a sale of TikTok so that the Chinese Communist Party can no longer control it; a ban only occurs if TikTok is not divested away from the CCP. Nonetheless, reading a bill is harder than reading a manual-though it's a teachable skill.

The TikTok bill cannot be used to target Rumble, which is a Canadian company.

Could the TikTok bill be used to target Elon Musk and Twitter? If you don't know how to read a bill, there are many specious arguments that could trick you into thinking that the answer is yes.

If you know how to read a bill the answer is a clear no. 

https://humanevents.com/2024/03/29/mike-wacker-did-critics-read-the-tiktok-bill

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