4 reactions to US House bill banning TikTok
3. Ben Shapiro
Podcaster Ben Shapiro expressed gratitude for the bill's passage on “The Ben Shapiro Show” last Thursday. He decried TikTok as “a viral psy-op that was created by the Chinese government” to “dissolve the social unity of the United States through social division, social media division.”
“What they are figuring is that if they wreck whatever social fabric exists in the United States through the means of culture, which is what TikTok is, they created this very highly addictive, highly watchable medium and then they control exactly what people see while gathering data about you. If they can do all of that, then they can undermine the power of the United States not only at home but in the world more largely,” he warned.
Shapiro cited a poll finding that nearly 30% of Generation Z women identify as LGBT as evidence of the success of the CCP’s effort to create “a viral psy-op.” He described the phenomenon as a “social contagion that is being promoted by apps like TikTok that present victimhood and victim identity as some sort of positive good.”
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“We know that TikTok has created these viral sort of sensations where people act in strange ways and create social contagions based on them,” Shapiro lamented. “All of this has been mainlined into American politics. Trans politics was not part of American politics 15, 20 years ago.”
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
