A Nation Scared Of TikTok And Balloons

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer recently declared that he was looking into a ban on TikTok in the United States — an idea so silly that it is both practically impossible and would result in the overthrow of the United States government if ever implemented. Of course, this has been something Senator Josh Hawley has been pushing for over the past several years — again, even though nothing about it makes any sense whatsoever.

Of course, Hawley has spent his entire time in the Senate doing nothing but hating modern technology — and social media specifically. Although Hawley claims his dislike of TikTok has to do with its ties to China — something which he has never been able to prove, I should note — but that does not explain why he has an equal hatred for all other social media platforms. Hawley spent his early years in the Senate criticizing Facebook, Twitter, and Google — even writing a book, published in 2021, called The Tyranny of Big Tech — but he has since all but dropped his talk of those platforms in favor of bashing TikTok. One has to wonder if it has something to do with the fact that Meta — the company which owns Facebook — has paid Republican politicians to attack TikTok.

Coming from somebody who has been keeping a close eye on both Senator Hawley and the TikTok controversy for several years, I must stress that I have found the claims of…