{"id":1713892,"date":"2022-10-27T16:04:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1713892"},"modified":"2022-10-27T16:19:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T20:19:38","slug":"democrat-senator-trump-was-right-about-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-senator-trump-was-right-about-tiktok\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Senator: Trump Was Right About TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fdemocrat-senator-trump-was-right-about-tiktok%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=1713892&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\/2022\/10\/e2489647-b85c-470f-813f-f23122e0cee8-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In 2020, President Trump wanted to ban TikTok over national security concerns with the Chinese-owned app. \u201cAs far as TikTok is concerned, we\u2019re banning them from the United States,\u201d Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-may-force-tiktok-sell-its-u-s-operations-n1235525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s efforts were ultimately unsuccessful. After taking office, Joe Biden took a different approach and actively embraced the controversial app by recruiting TikTok influencers to help advance his agenda. Last year, celebrity TikTok-ers were brought in to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/biden-administration-promotes-covid-19-182700917.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">help his COVID-19 vaccination push,<\/a>\u00a0and this week he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/catherinesalgado\/2022\/10\/24\/biden-claims-restrictions-on-transgender-surgeries-for-kids-are-immoral-n1639618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">invited transgender activist and TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney to the White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Biden\u2019s embrace of the platform, the security risks posed by the app remain. \u00a0While on a trip to Australia, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) admitted that former President Donald Trump was right to warn about the ties between the Chinese Communist Party and the social media platform TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not something you would normally hear me say, but Donald Trump was right on TikTok years ago,\u201d Warner said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/politics\/federal\/trump-was-right-on-tiktok-threat-leading-democrat-20221024-p5bsd3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> the <em>Sydney Morning Herald<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf your country uses Huawei, if your kids are on TikTok, if your population uses WeChat as a social media platform, the ability for China to have undue influence is, I think, a much greater challenge and a much more immediate threat than any kind of actual, armed conflict,\u201d Warner continued. \u201cChina having this kind of technology domination in a number of countries ought to scare the heck out of us because we\u2019ve seen the kind of Orwellian surveillance state they\u2019ve already created within China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Related:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/lincolnbrown\/2022\/10\/03\/they-own-the-science-and-they-want-to-control-how-you-access-information-about-it-n1634027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">They \u2018Own the Science,\u2019 and They Want to Control How You Access Information About It<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration is <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/nation\/technology\/dem-sen-warner-admits-trump-was-right-about-tiktok?utm_source=pocket_mylist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a> negotiating to keep TikTok in the United States, but it wants to ensure that data from American users is kept separate from data from other countries in order to prevent the Chinese Communist Party from gaining access to it. Sen. Warner is skeptical about this plan, saying that\u00a0TikTok has \u201ca big mountain to climb with me to prove the case that it can really be safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, President Trump wanted to ban TikTok over national security concerns with the Chinese-owned app. \u201cAs far as TikTok is concerned, we\u2019re banning them from the United States,\u201d Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1713895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713892","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1713895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}