By Sean Moran - Breitbart News
The House voted 352-61-1 H.R. 7521, Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The bill featured 15 Republicans against the bill, 50 Democrats against it, showing that there is strong bipartisan interest in curbing TikTok’s apparent national security threat.
The vote on the TikTok bill was controversial for Republicans and represented a split between those who were concerned about the national security implications of allowing a Chinese-owned application to be used by millions of Americans, those who were concerned that the app’s ban may empower big tech companies such as Google and Facebook.
In the best-selling book Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans, Breitbart News senior contributor and GAI President Peter Schweizer exposed restricted military journal entries showing how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) views the app as a psychological warfare weapon aimed squarely at America’s youth:
In one of the restricted journals, Colonel Dai Xu, a professor at China’s top military academy, People’s Liberation Army (PLA) National Defense University (PLA-NDU), wrote that the real battle between the United States and China is “information-driven mental warfare” and compared apps such as TikTok and social media platforms to a “modern day Trojan Horse.”
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