Again under the magnifying glass

                                   Again under the magnifying glass
                                                                                                                                                                   by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme: A bipartisan vote of the US House of Representatives approved an Amendment that can ban and/or censor the Chinese social network TikTok.

The Chinese company ByteDance, which controls TikTok, the largest social network in the world with more than one billion users, has six months to sell its shares or be blocked in the US (https://bbc.in/4cbYkwR).

TikTok's sin is boasting millions of young users who criticize Israel's genocide, which is why the omnipotent "Israeli lobby" (https://bit.ly/3vi7Ai7) has demanded its ban and/or extinction.

ByteDance, based in Beijing, with more than $85 billion in revenue and 150,000 employees, is registered in the tax haven of the Cayman Islands, and 12 years after its founding it is accused by both parties in Congress of put US national security at risk. As if GAFAM –Google/Amazon/Facebook/Apple/Microsoft– had not put the national security of the rest of the planet at risk: The invisible cyber prison: Google/Apple/Facebook/Amazon/Twitter (GAFAT; https://bit .ly/3OMHLgI).

It all has to do with the defining presidential election in the US, which is suffering an implosive dislocation, according to the British think tank Chatham House (https://bit.ly/3IADKsp).

Now Trump, who tried to boycott TikTok during his term, criticized the digital McCarthy Amendment, which is due, in the BBC's opinion, to his recent meeting with Republican donor Jeff Yass, who owns a minority of shares. on ByteDance.

Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene pointed out that the prohibitive Amendment could force the sale of other networks under the pretext of protecting basic US data from foreign adversaries.

According to WSWS, TikTok's silencing Amendment escalates censorship on networks and prepares for a war against China (https://bit.ly/3x5TMaX).

Anti-China politicians of both parties declare that the threat to US national security comes from the application of Tik Tok's algorithm and use of artificial intelligence to collect information and manipulate US citizens for the benefit of Beijing. Wouldn't what GAFAM/GAFAT applies, which captures and sells the data of illegally spied on users, be worse?

It is disturbing that the ban against TikTok, whose half of its 170 million users in the US are between 18 and 34 years old, is generated eight months before the presidential election.

In the US, TikTok has been consistent in its criticism of both Israel's genocide and the aberrant US foreign policy (https://bit.ly/3IFZGSJ).

WSWS exposes that “the director of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, was caught in leaked audio calling this the problem with TikTok, who supports its ban on the grounds that it facilitates the spread of anti-Semitism: cheap misinformation that is launched against those who They oppose the genocide in Gaza (https://bit.ly/48XruN5). WSWS reveals that “users of social media platforms have discovered that certain words or phrases, such as ‘Gaza’ or ‘Genocide,’ cause their posts to be flagged and deleted.”

Ben Samuels, from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and very close to the Khazarian duo of Jacob Sullivan and Antony Blinken, rules out that the omnipotent “Israeli lobby” AIPAC (https://bit.ly/3vi7Ai7) – in order to suffocate anti-affection sentiment -Israel and anti-Semite(sic)– is behind the Amendment and disqualifies the protests as pure conspiracy theory (https://bit.ly/3TlwnKd).

He was surprised that the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) – which represents hundreds of Jewish communities – has supported the Amendment against TikTok.

JFNA stated in a letter to Congress: Our community understands that social media is a major driver of anti-Semitism (mega-sic!) and that TikTok is by far the worst offender.

It was no surprise that Khazarian (https://bit.ly/4bQeMT7) Steve Mnuchin, former Treasury Secretary, is in first place to acquire TikTok (https://wapo.st/3IFH4T2).