Kara Frederick
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Director, Tech Policy Center at The Heritage Foundation | Visiting Fellow, NSI | Formerly: CNAS, Facebook & DoD | Views mine. ¡Viva Cristo Rey!
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My name is Kara. I played soccer in the English premier league while getting my grad degree, deployed to Afghanistan with special ops units multiple times, and worked at a Big Tech company in California. None of this fulfilled me like becoming a mother. Harrison Butker is right.
Can we start a trend with women with degrees and careers but agree with Harrison Butker’s speech?
I’ll go first: my name is Noelle, I have three degrees, and I agree that the world needs more masculinity and that wives/mothers are vital for society.
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Feels like it’s from a different era.
God Bless America. 🇺🇸
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May our lives—and our country—be worthy of their sacrifice.
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My friends and I spent our twenties in third world countries working 20 hrs a day for months to make sure terrorists didn’t come to the United States. Now they get to walk right in.
NEW:
@NBCNews
reporting an Afghan on the FBI terror watchlist has spent almost a year in the U.S. after he was caught & released by Border Patrol at the California border in March 2023. NBC reports the watchlist shows he is a member of Hezb-e-Islami, a U.S. designated terrorist
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My father and I both deployed to Afghanistan. Two generations in the same war.
Though we don’t have boots on the ground in Ukraine, “as long as it takes” is not a viable strategy. Our involvement in this conflict requires an endgame.
@dagenmcdowell
@seanduffywi
@heritage
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The CCP spy balloon is small potatoes compared to the CCP spy app.
TikTok collects the locations, private messages, clipboards, keystroke rhythms and more of tens of millions of Americans—every hour, every day.
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Governments are not the only actors capable of encroaching on Americans’ individual liberties. Private, monopolistic corporations should be held accountable if they violate these liberties to the degree Big Tech that has in the past 1.5 years alone.
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I tried girlbossing so hard.
Deployed with special ops units, worked at a Big Tech company in Silicon Valley, even played soccer in the women's English premier league after college.
But nothing compares to starting a family. Nothing is as fulfilling. Nothing.
NYT ran piece suggesting those of us-
@kearney_melissa
@asymmetricinfo
& YT-are "scolds" for addressing state of our unions🇺🇸.
Not true.
Not here to scold women.
But to raise the alarm. Today:
✔️More than 1-in-3 young adults will never marry.
New record.
Huge implications.
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Big Tech companies have proven themselves irresponsible stewards of their government-enhanced power. A recalibration of their relationship to the American people is warranted.
Quick explanation of the problem here:
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Here I am, crying on the train.
Modern society tells girls to look to pop stars and business women for inspiration. They ought to look here instead. To the foot of the Cross. To pain and beauty and redemption and love. To a mother and her son.-
Matt Walsh
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If we do not strike at the heart of Big Tech’s toxic practices now, others will cont. to follow suit until campaigns against Joe Rogan/Spotify, Airbnb bans & GoFundMe fraud gives way to climate change compliance, ESG & other social credit machinations as requisite for daily life.
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If we do not arrest the infringement of natural rights by these “private” companies now, the future is a tech-enabled social credit system based off nebulous appeals to “safety” & “harm” that will render dissenters from prevailing leftist narratives second class citizens.
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An appeal to heaven.
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For all you “conservatives” who don’t want to use power when you have it because “it will be used against us later.” WAKE UP. They’ve been using it against us for a long time.
Our choice is clear: we can no longer play by the Marquess of Queensberry rules (h/t
@VDHanson
) when
BAD EGG: The White House is laying down new rules for the religious holiday tradition — no "religious symbols" or "overtly religious themes."
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To accomplish this, we’ve laid out a roadmap to end Big Tech’s pernicious influence over our society as we know it.
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1. Companies working hand in glove with the government to police speech.
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This division will end when/if we reclaim our sense of God and virtue:
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” —John Adams
@Heritage
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2. The constriction of digital life beyond social media.
This goes far beyond Trump & Twitter—it’s about every Americans' ability to take part in modern life: This past week's actions by GoFundMe & Airbnb are just scratching the surface:
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Last I checked the First Amendment does not apply to the Chinese Communist Party.
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My mistake here a few weeks ago was thinking that the students and leftists chanting “from the river to the sea” didn’t realize what they were *truly* saying when they quoted the Hamas charter.
I was wrong. They all know EXACTLY what they are saying.
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Too many gatekeepers of information—elite media, academia, various organs of the culture, and public institutions—are in thrall to leftist ideology. As the past year+ has borne out, Big Tech companies are not afraid to exercise their power in the service of this ideology:
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They’re not even hiding it anymore, just relying on your apathy.
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3. The targeting and exploitation of the next generation of Americans.
Big Tech is well aware of how their products deliberately addict a younger and younger demographic and tear at the moral fabric of our society.
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4. The expansion of digital surveillance to target mainstream conservative thought (or mere dissent from leftist narratives) as “extremism.”
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@AuronMacintyre
“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”
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My Dad’s advice when I got my first real job in the Intelligence Community:
“If they ask you to get coffee, be the best darn coffee-getter they’ve ever seen.
If they ask you to take out the trash, be the best at taking out the trash they’ve ever seen.”
Let me add to this to clarify...when I was young, one great piece of advice I got was be the non-complainer. When asked by someone to do something, I would do it.
When asked to build a deck, I did it. And obsessed about every word, transition, image and animation until I felt
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TikTok is panicking because this bill calls their bluff.
TikTok is so in bed with China they won't reach for the clean divestment option this legislation gives them. Why not? Good question.
That should tell you all you need to know about the grip China has on TikTok. They
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If we do not confront this tech-enabled stratification now, Big Tech will continue to erode individual liberties, segment the American citizenry, and stunt human flourishing.
Join us in the foxhole!
@Heritage
@KevinRobertsTX
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American hostages are still in Gaza. Nearly two dozen Americans were killed during the Hamas terrorist attack.
We’ve got skin in the game.
Biden should start acting like it instead of prostrating himself before both woke and anti-American protestors at home.
My comments on
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•Allow American citizens to hold tech companies accountable for their inconsistent application of policies via the judicial system.
•Require transparency in content moderation practices, algorithmic impacts, and data collection, storage, and sharing.
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•Pass data privacy legislation.
•Prohibit governments and government actors from using social media platforms as their agents to chill speech.
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The Trump indictment was never about national security. It’s about politics.
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The answer to the Big Tech problem exists in solutions that promote human flourishing and arrest the infringement of God-given rights by private entities, such as freedom of speech. 🇺🇸
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•Impose costs on tech companies for ties to the CCP and other adversary nations. Ensure compliance w/ Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and take measures to prohibit certain joint ventures, such as:
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First, Congress—with relevant federal agencies—should:
•Enforce anti-trust laws and reform & modernize them where necessary.
•Scrutinize Big Tech companies' ad tech model.
•Establish executive liability.
•Reform Section 230. (cont.)
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Our proposal acknowledges this truth and reflects an imperative to protect Americans’ natural rights against abuses flowing from the consolidation of power—whether by the government, private corporations, or a combination of the two.
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State legislatures, executives, and attorney generals should:
•Continue to fight Big Tech censorship and practice through state legislative action to seek accountability, transparency, and fair treatment for all users.
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American citizens should:
•Strengthen grassroots efforts to demand transparency from these companies.
•Look outside Washington, D.C. for enduring solutions.
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Tech companies should:
•Explore privacy-preserving tech and privacy by design initiatives to shore up data privacy.
•Institute additional mechanisms for user control.
•Build with full stack in mind.
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An array of the following recommendations can be deployed simultaneously. Each of these approaches has potential advantages and drawbacks—none is a panacea. However, the aggregate effect should be far more scrutiny, pressure, and oversight over Big Tech companies.
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As our
@Heritage
Oversight Project found, every state is now a border state.
@mhowelltweets
@lora_ries
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The China-Russia alignment has been growing for years, especially in the digital sphere. If, as my
@Heritage
colleague
@VictoriaCoates
points out, the PRC gets involved in Ukraine's reconstruction efforts too, then China is an even bigger winner in all this.
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TikTok is effectively an arm of the Chinese Communist Party.
The amount of U.S. adults who get their news from TikTok has tripled in 2 years.
Nearly two-thirds of American teens are on the app.
An estimated 30 percent of PRE-teens use it.
Enough is enough. BAN TIKTOK.
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TikTok is deliberately corrupting the next generation of American citizens.
Part of today’s conversation with
@SandraSmithFox
on
@AmericaRpts
:
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Glory to Jesus Christ. Glory forever.
Merry Christmas! 🎄🔔⛪️
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On Artificial Intelligence, my thoughts today are the same as they were in 2019:
If we don’t write the rules of the road for emerging technologies, authoritarians like 🇨🇳 will do it for us.
From my first on-set conversation with
@DanaPerino
and
@BillHemmer
last month:
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It's official! Beyond excited to join
@Heritage
's Center for Technology Policy with
@lora_ries
and
@DustinCarmack
.
I remain endlessly grateful to
@CNASdc
, especially to
@paul_scharre
and
@RHFontaine
for taking in a Silicon Valley refugee more than three years ago.
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Beamer then recited Psalm 23, concluding, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.” Immediately after, he turned to his co-conspirators and asked, “Are you guys ready? OK, let’s roll.”
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One of the first things I did when I got to DC from Silicon Valley was explain to lawmakers that Big Tech companies see themselves as GLOBAL corporations, responsible to a GLOBAL constituency—first and foremost.
The Mom ‘n’ Pop, apple pie, red white and blue only comes out when
“Microsoft runs an AI research center in Beijing and employs 10,000 people in China — at least 3,000 focus on AI development. This is a risk to American security,” writes
@geoffrey_cain
in
@thehill
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If anything, the aftermath of Oct 7th exposed the morally bankrupt nature of the left. A side that claims to “support women” cheered an attack where women were savaged and murdered in the most heinous ways possible. A side that claims to be “inclusive” calls for wiping out the
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Platforms like TikTok seem to be fanning the flames of anti-Israel sentiment among teens—just as they light a fire under social contagions like gender dysphoria and self-harm.
Extremely troubling when 67% of young Americans are on this app and 16% use it “almost constantly.”
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We don’t owe China the right to surveil and manipulate our citizens.
@committeeonccp
@HouseCommerce
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Are the wheels of justice finally turning?
I ask this and more on yesterday’s breaking news-filled hour of
@OutnumberedFNC
!
@Heritage
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Holds up!
"Do we want all of that information sort of hanging out there for nation state adversaries to scoop up to integrate with other datasets?" former counterterrorism analyst Kara Frederick asked in 2020.
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This is the hill to die on. Our kids are worth fighting for.
A big win in the fight for parental rights! A CA school ordered to fork over $100k in settlement to a mother who says her daughter was transitioned into a boy without her consent.
@karaafrederick
@LevineJonathan
react
@dagenmcdowell
@SeanDuffyWI
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Open borders are a national security threat. It’s only a matter of time until we get hit as a result.
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The bargain was that if you came here, you assimilated. My family loved and served America alone, despite my mom’s Mexican heritage. This is the only acceptable attitude.
Yet somehow we tolerate chants of “Death to America” and the raising of another flag in place of our own
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On TikTok:
“Slowly but steadily it can turn the West’s youth—its future—into perpetually distracted dopamine junkies ill-equipped to maintain the civilization built by their ancestors.”
Excellent article from
@G_S_Bhogal
.
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My new CNAS report, “The Razor’s Edge: Liberalizing the Digital Surveillance Ecosystem,” is out today!
In it, I take a look @ surveillance in China, its adoption in global swing states, debates w/i open societies, & early responses to COVID-19. (1/18)
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The majority of Americans now see TikTok as the national security threat that it is.
@Heritage
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Courage is in short supply these days, but not here.🇺🇸
My message to the self-appointed global elites: Your time is up.
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Elon's takeover was widely touted as THE market solution to the censorship problem. But today proves it's time to stop running away from the reality that the Big Tech issue requires POLICY action as well. Yes, that means using govt--federal and state--while building out of this.
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The CCP would be stupid if they were NOT doing this.
A group of mostly Chinese military-age males wait to be released into the US.
Once they enter they will disperse throughout the country.
Nothing to see here…
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Deeply grateful for the opportunity to testify yesterday.
Thanks to bicameral efforts years and years in the making, we now have a real chance to secure a national data protection framework for our citizens.
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The Biden admin cannot resist turning the national security apparatus against American dissent.
Don’t believe for one second they won’t weaponize this new disinformation board against you.
@MorningsMaria
@dagenmcdowell
@FoxBusiness
@Heritage
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The left does everything they accuse the right of “planning” to do.
Report: FBI Plans To Arrest Blaze Media Reporter Without Telling Him What Charges He’s Facing
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Get all Americans out NOW or else expend inestimable blood & treasure getting them out LATER.
If we still believe in "no man left behind," that is...If not, we deserve the rancor of both our friends & our foes.
@foxbusiness
@brianbrenberg
@mercedesschlapp
@jasoninthehouse
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Accurate.
“It’s almost like [Chinese company Bytedance] recognize[s] that technology’s influencing kids’ development, and they make their domestic version a spinach TikTok, while they ship the opium version to the rest of the world,” says Tristan Harris.
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The Terror Threat is skyrocketing.
What was the point of sending us over there for all those years if we’re just going to let terrorists walk across the border here?
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TOMORROW: I'm sitting down with two patriots of incredible foresight
@MikeBenzCyber
&
@bhweingarten
at Heritage.
Don't miss it! 10:30am ET on Tues, April 9th
🚨We are declaring a State of Emergency🚨
Join us next week for
#WeapoSympo
RSVP link for in-person and virtual below
We are going to take the country back
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Been sayin’ it.
China's authoritarian government created the "social credit system" to enforce obedience. Western governments are working with corporations to create a social credit system that will pave the way for authoritarian rule.
Dissent will still be possible, but it will be expensive.
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China, by blending the public & private sectors, is at the bleeding edge of using technology for social control.
Some trends here and across the globe risk mirroring this practice.
@Heritage
has a plan to stop this in its tracks:
“It's everything. Email delivery services, online fundraising platforms…It's every aspect of your digital life."
#BigTech
totalitarianism in America is starting to mirror
#China
's social credit system, argues
@Heritage
's
@karaafrederick
🔴WATCH 👉
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Clearly she's never been on a field with men who are actually trying.
I played on a top ten Div. 1 women's soccer team (UVA) and we would still get CRUSHED by local 15-year-old boys in scrimmages. Year after year. We only lost "gracefully" because we knew—from the outset—that it
National Women's Law Center President Fatima Goss Graves, the liberal witness at the Title IX hearing, says that female athletes should "learn to lose gracefully" to biological men.
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Musk should commit Twitter to radical transparency. Make them show their work when it comes to content moderation--past, present & future.
We can't count on billionaires as free speech white knights in other cases, so platforms need BOTH technical solutions & policy options.
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Too soon to ask again if we still have an Iranian agent working for ASD SO/LIC in the Pentagon? Seems important.
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Keep fighting the good fight,
@elonmusk
!
Elon Musk pushing back against a Brazilian court's anti-free speech agenda.
@karaafrederick
sounds off with
@dagenmcdowell
and
@SeanDuffyWI
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But sure yeah TikTok is fine. Not a single influence op in sight.
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Been sayin’ it.
Everyone’s obv focused on Twitter—but let’s not forget the bigger picture: participation in public life to almost any degree now requires submission to the same types of unaccountable Big Tech star chambers with identical types of people making the same types of decisions.
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The border crisis is also a national security crisis.
BREAKING: Per multiple CBP sources, Border Patrol agents in San Diego sector arrested an Afghan national on the FBI’s terror watchlist after he crossed illegally w/ group of migrants near Otay Mesa, CA on Wednesday. I’m told FBI confirmed the match, & is leading investigation.
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Open your eyes.
This is, arguably, the most consequential 80 seconds of any speech delivered by a government official in as long as I can remember.
This is the panopticon and the new digital gulag. This is the start of The De-personing. This will expand to every country and every "offense."
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Started the morning with Section 230, malware, and some anti-trust talk on
@FoxFriendsFirst
! Thanks to
@jillianmele
and
@ToddPiro
for indulging me.
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Every American I spend time talking to—in airports, coffee shops, at church, even working out this week, everywhere—sees this as total common sense.
Americans should be in charge of how their data is collected, stored, and shared. A national data protection framework is a
"It’s time to put Big Tech on notice and let them know that the gravy train, built on the backs of Americans and our children, is over." -
@karaafrederick
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What is going on here
PSAKI: If you're banned on one social media platform, you should be banned on other social media platforms.
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I’d say THE thing that shocked me most when I moved from DC to Silicon Valley was the inability of the tech industry to see our enemies clearly, namely China. There was no geopolitical cognition, no recognition of the threat.
It is now willful ignorance.
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Was NOT expecting this question from
@TGowdySC
, but glad I got the opportunity to let young people know what they can do to escape the toxic grip of these
#bigtech
platforms.
@gowdyamerica
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The Heritage Foundation, February 2022:
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I think about this every single day. Said it last week from the
@OutnumberedFNC
couch:
The Commander in Chief is responsible for the safety and security of U.S. citizens in the face of geopolitical threats.
Biden’s policies have instead made the American people sitting ducks.
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Same. Put not your trust in princes.
Big Tech’s abuses require policy solutions. We have them:
This has been my message in various Fox interviews and elsewhere: Don’t rest content with gratitude to
@elonmusk
for shedding light on this (though he deserves our gratitude!).
This is a structural, political problem requiring a structural, political response.
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It’s going to get worse.
The problem is Tik Tok.
Anyone who thinks it’s a coincidence that the CCP app is making anti-American takes go viral isn’t paying attention. American kids are being manipulated and misinformed and we refuse to do anything about it.
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Would love to see
@elonmusk
say NOPE, we're gonna do things differently around here.
Defying
@paraga
's instincts and pressing for 1A as Twitter's new guiding principle would shake up the place in the best of ways.
@EveningEdit
@LizMacDonaldFOX
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