{"id":1917320,"date":"2023-04-20T21:41:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T01:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ccp-censors-climate-discourse-on-americas-biggest-social-media-platform\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T21:47:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T01:47:05","slug":"ccp-censors-climate-discourse-on-americas-biggest-social-media-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ccp-censors-climate-discourse-on-americas-biggest-social-media-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"CCP Censors Climate Discourse On America\u2019s Biggest Social Media Platform"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fccp-censors-climate-discourse-on-americas-biggest-social-media-platform%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=1917320&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>\n<div>\n<figure>                         <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>TikTok announced the platform will be celebrating Earth Day with the removal of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/tiktok-to-remove-climate-change-denial-videos-and-direct-users-to-authoritative-information-12860971\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">climate change denial videos<\/a>\u201d without defining \u201cclimate change denial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TikTok <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.tiktok.com\/en-us\/earth-day-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced <\/a>Wednesday the company will roll out the policy this week with users redirected to \u201cauthoritative information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrust and authenticity fuel the creativity of TikTok\u2013and we believe we have an important role to play in empowering informed climate discussions on our platform,\u201d the company said. \u201cOn April 21, we will begin to ramp up enforcement of a new climate change misinformation policy which removes climate change misinformation that undermines well-established scientific consensus, such as denying the existence of climate change or the factors that contribute to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TikTok responded to The Federalist\u2019s request to specify parameters for removal with a link to the platform\u2019s integrity and authenticity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/community-guidelines\/en\/integrity-authenticity\/?cgversion=2023#1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">page<\/a>. The company website, however, offers broad descriptions of what qualifies as \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not allow inaccurate, misleading, or false content that may cause significant harm to individuals or society, regardless of intent,\u201d the website reads.<\/p>\n<p>The new climate policy from the Chinese-owned company stands to benefit Beijing with the injection of left-wing commentary over climate change as the only narrative available on one of America\u2019s most dominant social media platforms. If TikTok follows suit with how rival tech giants have <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/29\/big-tech-censors-are-pivoting-from-covid-to-climate-change\/\">censored<\/a> climate content deemed \u201cdenialism,\u201d and there\u2019s no reason to believe it will not, then videos that express skepticism of imminent planetary self-destruction by runaway emissions will face removal.<\/p>\n<p>The liberal narrative on climate change is a boon to Beijing, eager to capitalize on America\u2019s subsidized demand for carbon-free technology. Red China dominates in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/reports\/solar-pv-global-supply-chains\/executive-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">solar panel<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windpowermonthly.com\/article\/1815868\/china-dominates-2022s-record-wind-turbine-order-intake-%E2%80%93-wood-mackenzie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wind turbine<\/a> manufacturing, while the communist party maintains a global <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/05\/even-this-left-wing-report-sounds-the-alarm-u-s-is-way-too-dependent-on-communist-china-for-minerals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">monopoly <\/a>on the mineral refinement necessary to produce electric vehicles. The world\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/271748\/the-largest-emitters-of-co2-in-the-world\/#:~:text=Largest%20global%20emitters%20of%20carbon%20dioxide%202021%2C%20by%20country&#038;text=China%20was%20the%20biggest%20emitter,global%20CO%E2%82%82%20emissions%20in%202021.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leading polluter<\/a> profits off America\u2019s obsession with the \u201cclimate crisis\u201d through sales of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/11\/studies-show-the-electric-vehicles-democrats-insist-you-buy-are-worse-for-the-environment-and-lower-quality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">clean<\/a>\u201d technology and the economic handicap Washington lawmakers embrace with billion-dollar climate packages.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to The Federalist, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubio.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/2022\/12\/rubio-gallagher-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-ban-tiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proposed<\/a> legislation to ban TikTok across the U.S., called the platform a national security threat. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cCensorship is the norm for Chinese tech companies,\u201d Rubio said, \u201cbut it\u2019s notable that TikTok\u2019s censorship program is now pandering to the Biden Administration\u2019s climate goals. No one should be fooled by this stunt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTikTok is a well-documented national security threat that should not be allowed to operate in the United States,\u201d Rubio added. <\/p>\n<p>Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley told The Federalist the app \u201cshould\u2019ve been banned in America a long time ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTikTok is [a] tool for the CCP to spy on Americans and push whatever agenda they want,\u201d Hawley said.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/23\/the-three-biggest-revelations-from-the-tiktok-hearing-that-explain-why-the-app-has-got-to-go\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">grilled<\/a> TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew in the House Energy and Commerce Committee last month over the company operating as a weapon of surveillance for the Chinse Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cTikTok spied on American journalists,\u201d said Washington Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who chairs the committee. \u201cCan you say with 100% certainty that neither ByteDance nor TikTok employees can target other Americans with similar surveillance techniques?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI disagree with the characterization that it was spying,\u201d Shou said.<\/p>\n<p>The company executive also conceded that TikTok\u2019s Chinese engineers have access to American data.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>   Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok announced the platform will be celebrating Earth Day with the removal of \u201cclimate change denial videos\u201d without defining \u201cclimate change denial.\u201d TikTok announced Wednesday the company will roll out the policy this week with users redirected to \u201cauthoritative information.\u201d \u201cTrust and authenticity fuel the creativity of TikTok\u2013and we believe we have an important role<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1917321,"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":[546],"tags":[8710,7126,11296,7378,6041,4321,4188,3987,5127],"class_list":["post-1917320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-biggest","tag-ccp","tag-discourse","tag-americas","tag-censors","tag-climate","tag-media","tag-platform","tag-social"],"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\/1917320","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1917321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}