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And just like the PATRIOT ACT, our fellow citizens will be tuned out and asleep as this gets ramrodded through Congress for Premier Biden’s signature.

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And they hate Substack.

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If Mitt Romney is for it, we all should be against it. Get your s**t together Utah and vote this loser out.

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You are the only journalist that is actually telling the truth here. Are there horrible sides to TikTok? Absolutely, just like Facebook and Instagram. But it’s not about banning TikTok and no one is talking about it. They do not care about national security. If they did, Google would have had its hands slapped decades ago. This is all about more digital surveillance.

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Grieves me to say it, but our greatest threat is from the inside rather than the outside.

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They hate us for our freedoms. ~ George W. Bush explaining what happened on 9/11

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More proof that repubs are no better the leftist dems.

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1.ban tiktok

2.default on China owned debt

3. WWW3

4. Euro-American CBDC

(Not necessarily in that order)

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Everyone is acting like this is a done deal. And it will be if we don’t oppose it.

Call your congresscritter and express your opposition.

Email or call a member of the House Freedom Caucus. They need to know what people think.

They’ve been pretty good, so far.

They can easily pass a bill dealing with Tic Tok alone.....

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Devious little devils! Just like the Patriot Act.

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trying to ban gas stoves. airconditioning. and now an internet platform - Patriot Act on steroids, let's just not go there!

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how come none of the phoney corrupt politicians are concerned the commie Chinese make more than half of our country's antibiotics?

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More misdirection from the slime we call politicians. Grandstanding about china and Tik Tok to get sound bites to there base, while the real plan is to apply a bigger boot to our necks.

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I hate to be so dense, but all of our reps and both senators are dems. And stupid, besides. Do we just pick a Republican to contact for stuff like this? I'd say "asking for a friend" but I'm asking for myself. (Truth in advertising.) The Patriot Act is bad enough; I don't want something even worse!!

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It's amazing how alike our countries are: in Canada, the gov is trying to pass something called bill C-11 which is an internet censorship bill. I think what you describe Jordan is worse. By the way, Biden is visiting Trudeau right now (or was last week) so they're probably comparing notes on these things.

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I believe Gab and Brighteon will go down first. Sites like MeWe, Substack and Bitchute will compromise or go down too.

Big, visible sites make easy targets. Like the Roman Catholic Church for religious persecutors.

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