'Just as the climate cult claims that old people are killing the planet and ruining the future for young people, they now claim that old people are banning TikTok and, again, ruining the future for young people,' ZacharyFaria writes.
A Washington Post “analysis” painted the attempt to ban TikTok as an effort by older Americans to wield their disproportionate power against younger Americans. The fight is a “reflection of the fact that political power is wielded by a group that generally doesn’t use the platform” and “a microcosm of so many other fights” where older Americans make decisions on a future that won’t “affect” them.
“One rationale is not hard to suss out," the piece claims."Attacking TikTok as somehow serving as an arm of the Chinese state allows the Right to cast President Biden and Democrats as unwilling to protect national security.” So why is the Washington Post so far in the tank for a Chinese spyware app that has admitted to tracking the physical locations of American journalists and been caught logging every keystroke of users who have the app on their phone? Part of it is that the Washington Post uses TikTok to try and reach young readers, and hit one million followers in August 2021. The outlet also has its own “TikTok team.
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