TikTok’s Theft By Paranoid Politicians Is Very Third World
A disturbingly paranoid U.S. political class demands that Beijing-based TikTok owner ByteDance sell TikTok to a U.S. buyer or face a ban.
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Clear filtersIf National Security Is the Goal, Then Leaving TikTok Alone Is the Answer
Arguably the worst arguments made in favor of a forced sale of TikTok have to do with national security. Missed by pundits and politicians is that trade is the best protection of all for countries…
App-Fearful Conservatives Pivot To Theft of TikTok
In their ongoing defense of the indefensible, conservatives defend threats by the political class to ban TikTok with weak-kneed arguments that TikTok could avoid the ban if they would just sell to…
Cowardly Critics of TikTok Hide Behind Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin famously asserted that the “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” Some conservatives are hiding behind Lenin’s quip to justify their latest big,…
TikTok Paranoia, Brought To You By the Architects of the Corona-Lockdowns
Where’s the outrage over the remarkably sad fact that the U.S. political class is coming for our freedom yet again? How dare they after the immense damage they caused four years ago this month?
Efforts By My Fellow Conservatives To Ban TikTok Are Misguided
Hey folks, I’ve got a couple of great ideas. Let’s ban free speech and use the subterfuge that we are doing so to protect children! Let’s also quit trading with the rest…
The Hideous U.S. Attack on TikTok Threatens Its Existence
Not just anyone can make TikTok what it’s become, and of course what it’s become is deafening evidence that it’s not controlled by the CCP as is.
Nikki Haley’s TikTok Stance Is a Big Loser With Youth
Polls show younger Americans are strongly against a ban on TikTok. I guess arbitrarily banning a social media app because it originated in China is a bit too socialist for us.
No, William Barr, Apple Does Not Violate Antitrust Law
Barr’s fear of Apple shouldn’t surprise us, while at the same time reminding us just how detached his analysis is from market realities. No, Apple does not violate antitrust law.
Thanks to Big Tech, Fathers Get To See Their Kids Each Morning
In my case, while I never saw my father on weekday mornings in the 1970s and 80s, my kids see me every weekday morning right up to school drop-off.
Would Lina Khan and the EU Have Blocked Amazon’s Acquistion?
FTC Chair Lina Khan’s aversion to big is well established, as is the EU’s. Imagine if Khan had headed up the FTC in the 1990s? Other than her age, the notion isn’t outlandish.
Apple Vision Pro Is Set to Shame FTC Storytellers
Regulators routinely fall into the trap of fighting yesterday’s battles, wasting taxpayer resources, and subjecting American businesses to legal harassment with zero foresight into how an industry…
The Adult Critics of Instagram Really Need to Grow Up
We must be a seriously rich country with very few real problems if media members and grandstanding politicians are attacking Instagram and Meta for having young users.
TikTok Nailbiters Would Be Wise To Bone Up On Viktor Belenko
U.S. businesses are expanding rapidly in China. Do you trust their instincts, or that of a political structure that was once so certain about the Soviet threat?
Seeking to Land Punches on Amazon, the FTC Is Punching Itself
Walmart can offer ‘Everyday Low Prices’ because it makes up in bulk sales for lower prices charged per unit. This is worth remembering with the FTC’s mindless attacks on Amazon.
The Mindlessness of the FTC’s Amazon Lawsuit Can Be Found In ‘Eras’
That Amazon would place all sorts of demands on its third-party vendors is logical, and once again obvious. Lina Khan may know she has no case, but if she doesn’t, she could find it through the Eras…
Google Is Searching For the Future As William Barr Searches for Fotomat
Barr’s Google attack was contradictory, which is a waste of words. Any argument suggesting impregnable monopoly is by its very description contradictory. Worse for GOP is that Barr bragged that the…
Lina Khan Hasn’t Found An Antitrust Violation, She’s Found the Past
When Kimbal (brother of Elon) Musk brought the idea of an online directory of businesses to the head of the Toronto Star, he was dismissed haughtily for believing with his brother that the internet…
As She Attacks Amazon, Lina Khan Shouts at the Past
The FTC’s focus is essentially on the past, while Amazon spends enormous amounts of money trying to discover the future
TikTok Faces Suffocating Government Authoritarianism…In the U.S.
If we’re free-speech absolutists, we’re by definition absolutists about the sources of speech. What’s being done to TikTok is embarrassing, and it won’t redound to its political critics in the U.S.
Facebook's Problems Are a Consequence of Poor Customer Relations
What’s wrong with Facebook? The value of its stock has dropped over 55% in the past year. Its earnings are only about 1.50% of current share value. It does not pay a dividend. Its revenue is down.…