The Post-Partisan Emporium

  TIKTOK: CHINESE “TROJAN HORSE” IS RUN BY STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS ALAN MACLEOD Amid a national hysteria claiming the popular video-sharing app is a Chinese Trojan Horse, a  MintPress News  investigation has found dozens of ex-U.S. State Department officials working in key positions at TikTok. Many more individuals with backgrounds in the FBI, CIA and other departments of the national security state also hold influential posts at the social media giant, affecting the content that over one billion users see. While American politicians demand the app be banned on national security grounds, try to force through an internet surveillance act that would turn the country into an Orwellian state, make clueless statements about how TikTok is dangerous because it connects to your Wi-Fi, it is possible that TikTok is already much closer to Washington than it is to Beijing.   STATE DEPARTMENT-AFFILIATED MEDIA For quite some time, TikTok has been recruiting former State Department officials to r

  Major Social Media Clampdowns Coming SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER Isn’t it interesting how after every falseflag-style event, we are invariably treated to a series of mountingly draconian restrictions which end up  never  being removed, even long after the inciting threat has been dispelled and no longer exists? The Patriot Act clamp-downs which ushered in an era of privacy invasion, including unleashing an unhinged TSA onto unsuspecting Americans, capable of violating them physically in the most sacrosanct ways possible, were never repealed, but rather continue to be renewed each year, despite the fact that ‘Al-Qaeda’ has long ostensibly ceased to exist as a coherent organization. It’s a simple axiomatic fact that power only takes, it never gives—or particularly—gives  back  anything of itself. It’s with no surprise that we now learn that the Pentagon plans to use the recent ‘leaks’ debacle to effect an unprecedented clamp-down on social media. The Pentagon now believes that private chatr