AOC came out against Amazon building a campus in New York because of course they are greedy capitalists and she did not like the fact that they were given a $3 billion dollar tax break. Ironically, she has no idea about business. Since there is no campus, there is no taxes to be collected. On top of that the campus would have employed 25,000 extremely high-paying jobs. That is just the tip of the iceberg because hotels, restaurants, and suppliers would have seen greatly increased business,
Now, she is coming out against a nationwide ban of Tik Tok that has been used to gather the information that threatens national security. Why would she do that? I can give you 150,000 reasons. Just follow the money. ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of the social media platform TikTok donated $150,000 to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, a nonprofit entity that AOC is a member.
I wonder if Joe Biden is angry. Besides the AOC group, Jamaal Bowen’s group also collected $150,000 dollars. He also came out in defense of Tik Tok. Bernie Madoff, may he rest in peace, did not pay off the right people. He went to prison with no Democrats to protect him. And Biden wonders why China gave a total of $300,000 instead of sending it to his money launderer, I wonder if the cost of laundering money could be a tax write-off.
Ocasio-Cortez recently remarked on TikTok that a ban of the platform over national security and privacy concerns would be “unprecedented”. While I agree that privacy on social media platforms is needed very badly, why would anyone believe that China would just obey a dozen new laws? I mean China flew a spy plane across nearly the whole country because they knew that Biden would p*#^y out.
AOC said:
“The United States is one of the only developed nations in the world that has no significant data or privacy protection laws on the books, “actually protect Americans from this kind of egregious data harvesting that companies can do without your significant ability to say no.”
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELRep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) has also publicly defended TikTok. He is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, while his wife, Melissa Oppenheimer, has worked with the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, which also received $150,000 from ByteDance.
“TikTok as a platform has created a community and a space for free speech for 150 million Americans and counting,” Bowman said last week. “It is also a place where 5 million small businesses are selling their products and services and making a living.”
Renewed scrutiny of TikTok, which former President Donald Trump considered banning at the end of his term, comes amid increasingly strained relations between the United States and China. President Joe Biden and some state officials have banned TikTok from government devices after reports indicated that ByteDance employees in China used the platform to monitor the locations of specific American users.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week about the extent to which officials in China maintain authority and influence over TikTok and ByteDance, vowing that the latter is not an “agent of China or any other country.”
