TikTok Is Banned — Land & Sea Journal

TikTok Is Banned (youtube.com)
(but soon after Trump gave them 75 days more)

There was some consideration this week for the economy. How a lot of money changes hands over TikTok, and thousands of people make money from TikTok. Other apps don't let people reach the same audience (is that because the profitability of TikTok is not important since it's for data collection?). It would be interesting to see a legit breakdown of what money, where it goes, and what the work involved contributes to the economy (content creators make content that may actually be negative for the country socially, when they could be producing other things... money changes hands which means tax collection ... perhaps means incentives for others to work to pay for things sold on TikTok.

The law was successful (so far) because China, Russia, Iran and NKorea are classied ‘foreign adversaries.’

In 2020 Trump signed two exective orders to ban TikTok in the US, but federal courts blocked both. ‘Unconstitutional intrusion on speech' was the argument. However, it's pretty obvious you can have an app just like TikTok (speech) without data colleciton (privacy and security risk).

Trump inauguration. Cartels as ‘foreign terrorist organizations.’ Strong measures to eliminate criminal gangs in the US, including inner cities. End the EV thing. Build a lot of cars. Drill a lot of oil. External Revenue Service to collect foreign taxes. Only 2 genders.

Manav Gupta, a random YouTube commenter during the second address, wrote an interesting point, ‘Mr. President. US birth rate has been declining and this should be alarming. Change the Law so that divorce can be final within minutes of applying for it to reverse this trend. (THE Legacy Thing!)’ If people were not ensystemated into a system where divorce means, in some ways, ‘the end of the man's life' and on the other side, where the woman has to maintain her relationship to her divorced man. If men and women were cut loose would they more easily make new pairings and have more children.