{"id":1185317,"date":"2022-01-04T00:04:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T05:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1185317"},"modified":"2022-01-04T00:04:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T05:04:25","slug":"alex-marlow-tiktok-is-a-chinese-weapon-pointed-at-american-kids-to-distract-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alex-marlow-tiktok-is-a-chinese-weapon-pointed-at-american-kids-to-distract-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Marlow: TikTok Is a Chinese Weapon Pointed at American Kids to Distract Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falex-marlow-tiktok-is-a-chinese-weapon-pointed-at-american-kids-to-distract-them%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1185317&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1230726785-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow and World Editor Frances Martel both described TikTok, a video-sharing app owned by Chinese company ByteDance, as a \u201cforeign weapon\u201d targeting American children and youth on Monday\u2019s edition of the <em>Breitbart News&nbsp;<\/em><em>Daily<\/em> podcast.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/tiktok-replaces-google-as-worlds-most-popular-website\/\">displacement<\/a> of Google as the world\u2019s most popular website, Marlow held, is illustrative of a broader displacement of America\u2019s global position by China. He warned of TikTok and other digital apps\u2019 capacities to obstruct personal development with time-wasting endeavors.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>He remarked, \u201cI was floored by the data that TikTok is now even more popular than Google around the world as the most popular domain. Not only is TikTok run by the Beijing Communist Party, but it\u2019s also something that is wildly distracting, and it seems to be custom-built to distract young Americans from doing anything productive, and just to get sucked into this black hole of staring at your screen all day doing stupid stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>TikTok\u2019s overtaking Google as the world\u2019s most popular domain relates to American decline, Marlow determined. \u201cIt struck me as maybe the beginning of the end of American domination around the world, and I hate to be grave about it, but I think someone needs to be.&nbsp;If we keep doing this \u2013 wasting millions upon millions of hours \u2013 every year staring at these screens \u2013 are we going to be able to process exactly how scary the world can be?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martel replied, \u201cTikTok&nbsp;is terrifying, because it\u2019s a weapon targeted at the youngest Americans, and a lot of Americans are too busy trying to juggle two or three jobs to really stare at every single thing that their kid is watching on their computer, and that\u2019s not their fault.&nbsp;That\u2019s the fault of the non-Big Tech globalists that are making it impossible for you to sustain yourself on one salary, so you have to hustle with Uber or whatever and you\u2019re not paying attention to your kids, and that\u2019s where TikTok comes in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Children with busy parents are uniquely vulnerable to being cognitively damaged by TikTok, Martel warned.<\/p>\n<p>She said TikTok \u201chas essentially supplanted significant parts of parenting, so that\u2019s really scary, because it hurts concentration. There\u2019s a lot of creative energy in America that\u2019s being poured into this, like people dancing with little captions that mean nothing.<\/p>\n<p>She concluded, \u201cTikTok \u2014 and social media, generally \u2014 are something that we need greater collective effort to combat, because it\u2019s clearly a foreign weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow and World Editor Frances Martel both described TikTok, a video-sharing app owned by Chinese company ByteDance, as a \u201cforeign weapon\u201d targeting American children and youth &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}