U.S. intelligence obtained by Newsweek has warned that domestic violent extremists pose a potentially growing threat to law enforcement, journalists and sites linked to the nation’s critical infrastructure.
DHS Warns U.S. Extremists Pose Growing Threat to Cops, Reporters, Pipelines
By Alan Macleod / MintPressNews
For quite some time, TikTok has been recruiting former State Department officials to run its operations.
TIKTOK: Chinese “Trojan Horse” Is Run By State Department Officials
You might recall that the FCC under both Trump and Biden has made a big deal about forcing U.S. telecoms to rip out Huawei gear from their networks, under the allegation that the gear is used to spy on Americans (you’re to ignore, of course, that the United States spies on everyone, constantly, and has broadly supported backdooring all manner of sensitive telecom products globally).
Whoops: Congress Failed To Actually Fund Efforts To “Rip And Replace” Chinese Telecom Gear From U.S. Networks
from the we-become-what-we-fear dept
Thu, Mar 30th 2023 10:49am – Mike Masnick
Earlier this month, we wrote about Mark Warner’s RESTRICT Act, mainly in the context of how it appeared to be kneejerk legislating in response to the moral panic around TikTok.
Senator Warner’s RESTRICT Act Is Designed To Create The Great Firewall Of America
America with Chinese Characteristics?! /sarcasm
Ellen Min doesn’t go to the grocery store anymore. She avoids bars and going out to eat with her friends; festivals and community events are out, too. This year, she opted not to take her kids to the local St. Patrick’s Day parade.
Asian Americans are anxious about hate crimes. TikTok ban rhetoric isn’t helping
I don’t know why I hate TikTok, I just know I’ve recently seen story after story about how bad it is on Twitter and in my Facebook feed, and now I’m very angry about it and want it banned.
Congress must ban TikTok. Only American companies can profit from my data.
A second ex-Guantanamo detainee has stepped forward to say that Gov. Ron DeSantis, while a U.S. Navy JAG officer in 2006, watched and allowed the brutal forced feedings of detainees that U.N. human rights authorities, an international physician’s group and others have condemned as a form of torture.
A second ex-Guantanamo detainee says Ron DeSantis attended brutal forced feedings
At CPAC, China is the new big bad
Roy Liu had not come to CPAC to hear Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville accuse leftists of wanting “one gender,” or to buy a “Biden-Fetterman 2024: It’s a No-Brainer” T-shirt. He, and dozens of other activists with the New Federal State of China, wanted to build support for destroying the Chinese Communist Party.
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At CPAC, those kinds of familiar riffs were supplemented by media and lobbying groups that support regime change in Beijing, and have never been more visible.
The Epoch Times, a newspaper associated with the Falun Gong religious movement suppressed by Xi’s government, had a sprawling presence at the conference, including the screening of “The Shadow State,” billed as “the first documentary about ESG” — another target of conservatives, both at CPAC and on the Hill.
And the New Federal State of China, “declared” three years ago by Steve Bannon and exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui, made its first CPAC appearance with a $75,000 sponsorship, and two high-tech booths where volunteers handed out leaflets and explained why the battle to destroy the CCP had to be won in America.
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Section 230 is vital to free speech on the internet, and its critics are often misguided or wrong about the law.
Why repealing or weakening Section 230 is a very bad idea
The global protests proved the war’s clear illegality and demonstrated the isolation of the Bush administration’s policies—and later helped prevent war in Iran in 2007 and the bombing of Syria in 2013. And they inspired a generation of activists.
20 Years Ago Today: We Didn’t Stop the Invasion of Iraq, But We Did Change History
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