Last week, Congress coupled the atrocious $95 BILLION foreign aid bill with an additional law, H.R. 7521, also known as the “TikTok Ban.” This bill will effectively ban or restrict “TikTok and foreign-adversary social media companies” unless the app is sold to the United States. The bill claims to protect the citizens of the United States from CCP surveillance, but in reality, it doesn't. When you read the fine print of this bill, it doesn't protect you; it is handing over greater power to the government and is a direct violation of our First Amendment. Congress MUST repeal this bill NOW, regardless of any positives in it. It grants our government tyrannical control over ALL media. Repeal the TikTok BAN!

This past month, there has been a great deal of talk surrounding the banning of TikTok and other foreign-adversary social media companies in Congress, originally through H.R. 7521 Act, and now passed into law alongside the $95 billion foreign aid bill. The issue with this act is that it would NOT protect the citizens of the United States in the way that it claims, but instead force us to relinquish our rights to the government. It is nothing but a Trojan horse.

So what exactly will this bill do? Firstly, it would restrict/ban what the government determines as a foreign adversary-controlled application. What is this determination? Who knows, but it will ban any website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application that is operated, directly or indirectly, by ByteDance, TikTok, or “foreign-adversary social media companies.” Pay attention to that language.

Here's where it gets bad. This act won't JUST apply to ByteDance, TikTok, or any other foreign-adversary social media companies because of its extremely vague language. It will actually also ban whatever constitutes as a foreign adversary, and it's the PRESIDENT that is granted the power to determine who and what constitutes as a “foreign adversary.”

The banning of these foreign adversary apps can be prevented if corporations like TikTok sold their companies to the United States, giving our government the reins to our media.

Remember the Patriot Act? Remember FISA? These acts, in the name of protecting the citizens of the United States, possessed such vague language that our Government was enabled to violate its people's rights. Anytime the government proposes a bill to “protect you,” you’re about to give up freedoms that you’ll never get back. They’ve run this playbook time and time again.

When a bill receives full bipartisan support, especially when it's advocated for by Biden, we should be questioning the actual motives found in the fine print, and those motives are the government banning and restricting any voice they deem as a foreign adversary. Imagine a world where you question the way Biden is dealing with the border, or you question policy changes, or advocate for freedom, and then you are deemed a foreign adversary, and in order to protect national security, you will be completely silenced. This is what is coming with this new law.

Congress must immediately repeal H.R. 7521! Founding father Benjamin Franklin once said: “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” We the people categorically REJECT H.R. 7521. If Congress wants to protect its citizens, they will give bipartisan support to H.R.2 Secure the Border, they would stop attacking our 2nd amendment, they would protect our Constitution! Congress, we the people DO NOT CONSENT to the “TikTok BAN” we do not consent to these first amendment violations, and we DEMAND you repeal this law!