It’s like the West left their children alone in a room with The Chinese Communist Party
Is there a more perfect propaganda weapon?
The CCP own TikTok and they use it to serve up polarizing addictive trivia to Western teenagers while they serve up scientific achievements to Chinese youth. At the same time the CCP collects locations, contacts, files and aps. Frighteningly it can copy the content of the clipboard, even storing passwords.
It’s not just children but adults too. It is so addictive, there are claims it has a billion users. Many use it daily and for as much as 5% of all their waking hours. With algorithms to control the content delivered and an army of bots to amplify whatever sentiment they want, the CCP can shape public opinion, change norms, and feed dissatisfaction and even violent protest — as Kane points out, the #blacklivesmatter hashtag on TikTok generated a crazy 4.9 billion views.
Near the end of his time in office, Trump must have realized the grave threat it posed. He gave the owners of Tiktok just 45 days to spin it off to a US company or face being banned in the US. But the owners — Bytedance — had already spent millions lobbying Capitol Hill, and immediately after Biden took office he signed an executive order undoing Trump’s directive.
By Carlisle Kane of Equedia Investment Research
China’s Biggest Weapon Against the West: Your Teen’s Phone
This year, TikTok became the most downloaded app on the internet, beating even Instagram and Facebook.
Over a billion people use it every month—that’s one-quarter of all adults outside of China.
TikTok is so engaging that nine out of 10 users visit the social network daily. And on average, they spend around 5-7% of their all waking time on this app.
If those numbers don’t say anything to you, let’s just say that this Chinese social media beats all addictiveness records that Facebook, Instagram, or any other Western social network has ever achieved.
The secret sauce?
It doesn’t let users choose what they want to see, for the most part.
Instead, its secret algorithm serves you an infinite reel of videos tailored to your likings based on all the data they acquire…
TikTok is a data collection machine for the CCP:
…as soon as you download the app, ByteDance—and by extension, the CCP—can see your location (at hourly intervals), contacts, all apps, files, and active subscriptions.
And here’s the most terrifying part: TikTok has 100% visibility into your clipboard. It can monitor and store your keystrokes, including passwords you type out on the phone.
So, not only can the CCP feed whatever it pleases to people across the world, it can rally its army of bots to engage with its content to shape public opinion in its favor – very much like Twitter has been used for spreading Chinese propaganda and spreading COVID news.
“… what China possesses today is even more dangerous than Cambridge Analytica. Because they don’t just have the data of a billion people, they also control the media they consume.”
TikTok serves different content in China than in the U.S.
But it’s not just about the language and cultural customs. The content is of a whole different nature and serves opposite purposes.
In China, TikTok shows educational clips about science and achievements. At the same time, American kids are fed the shallowest, mind-numbing entertainment, such as funny pet videos, comical mishaps—as well as extremist political content.
Before long, they’ll polarize our society to the point that we’ll slit each other’s throats ourselves.
h/t David E
Photo by By Surprising Shots.
If i were a hostile nation wanting to swiftly bring the west to its knees I would instruct my hackers to concentrate on disabling the mobile phone network.
Young people in particular have their whole lives on them and world be reduced to zombies
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They’re not already?
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yes, including their parents already! and who gave them the facility to become a zombie, who produced the roadmaps with service stations for said journey ?
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A survey in the UK a few weeks ago showed that a third of young people under 16 got their news entirely from social media with tik tok being the largest source
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TikTok — the clock is ticking on Western ascendancy. Even though I am not of Western heritage, I must say, the world will be much poorer and less liberal.
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…but then, given the state of Western academia, media and other institutions, it may not be much of a loss.
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TikTok is used as a vehicle by the Chicomms to promote moral degeneracy in the West. It also supports banality; vain, shallow, narcissistic people; promotes transgenderism to kids; is utterly lacking in merit and is the online moral equivalent of a destructive bioweapon like covid, also courtesy of the Chicomms.
Today’s children are so dumbed-down and propagandised very few have an interest in paper books or doing anything with their hands or anything else off-screen.
TikTok is one of many methods of unconventional war Chicomms wage against the West which includes covid, sending vast amounts of prescription opioids to the West knowing they will be abused, promotion of the anthropogenic global warming fraud etc..
As Jo mentioned, TikTok is also a security risk and is used by the Chicomms to harvest data from people’s phones, similarly with Zoom which is why smart military, intelligence and corporate organisations don’t allow its use (Zoom is a US registered company but some traffic goes through servers in China, security issues are well documented).
Not surprisingly, the Chicomms don’t allow TikTok in their own country, only a morally upright version (moral according to Chicomm beliefs) called Douyin.
YouTube channel “Odins Men” (no apostrophe), run by a retired US Marine, regularly reviews the worst excesses of TikTok. https://youtube.com/c/OdinsMen
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All that is new is the media. Hand held computers instead of TV, and before that the print media..
When the kids were young there was a quaint cartoon Inspector Gadget. The sequence of events was always the same. Somebody fell into Harm’s way, was rescued and all lived happily ever after. I was always gunna watch it with a stopwatch to see if exactly the same time was allocated to each event in the series, but didn’t.
A generation later we visited daughter in faraway Ipswich, Queensland, and I sat with the three grandkids to watch TV while Mum was getting breakfast.
The sequence of events was similar, but this time the heroine was a teenage girl, the villain was her father in his business suit, and she saved the world by thwarting his business plans, so that all could live happily ever after.
I could only assume that this was the fodder the kids were fed on a regular basis, but was too busy to do anything about it.
As I now see the younger grandkids watching Minecraft I wonder what can I substitute for them to put their time in on. Thinking of trying to interest them in Euclid.
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Thanks for that youtube channel recommendation. Looks great.
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The extraordinary thing is that we have hundreds of institutions which we can liken to fortified castles. But instead of them being destroyed one by one by enemies of the west they are instead being demolished from the inside.by our own people, normally intellectuals and the elite
In all of history I can think of no comparison, why are we doing it?
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The concept of our own institutions destroyed from within originates with Rudi Dutschke’s “long march through the institutions” conceived in 1967.
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Antonio Gramsci (1920’s) and he subsequent Frankfurt School well predate Dutschke.
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“In all of history I can think of no comparison”
probably because the means for mass subversion only became available with the advent of mass media and corporatist/consumer society.
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“In all of history I can think of no comparison, why are we doing it?”
It might instructive to look at it from a religious perspective.
The ‘we’ believe they are ‘doing it’ for a cause.
For the return of the Eden nature Messiah.
Secular society is more vulnerable to this undermining that the rational among us may be willing to admit.
Once it was discovered that the planet was not the totality of existence, the Priestly/Overlord classes saw that it was necessary to manipulate not for the salvation of the individual soul, but the salvation of the planet.
On this blog, we try to adhere to rationality (not me so much) and have had our backsides handed to us.
As for as history, we may need to look to post Neolithic pagan cultures for precedent.
There must be sacrifice or Sol will not return.
You guys in England have new a King that is a true believer in the new religion and primed for the new Crusade. You also have henges ready for refurbishing.
Being a mid-wit, I may be capable of ascertaining the problem, but lack insight to the solution.
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Your level of analysis and thus awareness of the core problem places you a few orders of magnitude above “mid-wit.” Nobody has the solution – all of us are blind mice running about in ever diminishing circles quite frankly, even the various sages at this site. Especially me – I’ve already had my tail cut off.
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That sounds scary, but isn’t. It seems you have a fairy-tale idea of what a king is. How much influence do you think the late Queen had on the way Britain was run?
The US president is far nearer the fairy-tale king’s power but, even there, the minions only obey the orders that suit them. In both places the power is with the officials, not the figureheads.
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I can’t think of a US president since JFK who wasn’t a deep state puppet or stooge. That includes DJT. And we know what the deep state did to JFK.
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I think there’ll be turmoil comes out of this change of royalty.
The lad seems to have firm ideas that can’t sit well with current events.
Furthermore, at nearly 74 years he will probably be impatient.
Something has got to give!
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“It seems you have a fairy-tale idea of what a king is”
I think we’ve entered a new fairy tale era.
A scary combination of Aldous Huxley and the Brothers Grim.
Did you know that Human righteousness will halt Climate Change and that very soon you will be able to download your consciousness into a computer and achieve immortality?
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The idiot box on steroids. Is it really an issue? Anything to do with science on the ABC or SBS is polluted with climate porn. They ate just speeding what was happenning anyway.
Your site is buggy today. Some of what I type is obscured.
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mass media is literally for programming the masses.
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has been for a long time. Problem is when your enemies catch on to it.
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im still on the “hyperbole” side if this.
The nefarious data collection activity of an app wont be TIKTOK alone…..im sure GOOGLE and AMAZON are thick thick thick in it.
Regards the media side of mental conditioning – my daughter watches (and makes) dance and fashion clips – my son watches (never makes) car, 4wd & comedy clips
Because they control what they see, if they have no interest in it….the clip lasts less than a second FLICKED away.
More ‘damaging’ propaganda exposure and far less control from TV 2, 7, 9 and 10 “NEWS” broadcasts held up as the standard of truth, fact and trust.
My kids dont “believe” their phones……they DO tend to believe TV NEWS
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Note well, Trump understood and made Bytedance spin off it’s US operations, all unravelled by Biden.
Next question…..what role did TikTok/byte dance play in “fortifying” the 2020 election for Biden and Co?
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https://reclaimthenet.org/tiktok-ramps-up-censorship-related-to-election-fraud-allegations/
SEE LINK FOR REST
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The US election ” fortification ” of 2020 was, again, an inside job. The conveniently manufactured Covid ” pandemic ” allowing 100 million mail-in ballots to be printed, the Zuckerberg-financed dropboxes, and the 51 FBI agents who took out a prominent ad claiming the Hunter Biden laptop was ” Russian disinformation ” surely proved that.
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If only it was just TikTok – in the social media world you are the commodity, and you data is sold everywhere, just ask Clive Palmer how he used google to target his ads in the last election. But China bad, USA good
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Generally, that is absolutely correct.
Sadly, due to relentless Leftist propaganda over decades, few people understand this today, including many younger Americans who are ashamed of their country for no good reason.
The (pre-Obama-Biden) USA represents freedom and democracy, China represents dictatorship and brutal repression of dissidents.
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Did yo get that view from social media? My handlers will pay for such information
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Its a two way street, they are fearful of Western ideas corrupting their youth.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/tiktok-is-not-china-popular-video-sharing-app-denies-australian-content-is-moderated-for-beijings-benefit/b5few9p1n
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Actually, I find it tragic, and indicative of the decline of Western Civilisation, that some (or many) people are unable to distinguish any difference between the vastly different ideas of governance represented by the United States and China.
One (USA) is of, by and for the people, the people are the supreme power and masters over the state; and the other (China) is of, by and for the supremely powerful state, the people are the servants of the state, not its masters.
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“One (USA) is of, by and for the people, the people are the supreme power and masters over the state; ”
Are you sure?
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Peter, at long last we may actually agree.
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Whatever you do, don’t cross the line. The sword hovers over our heads.
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Once – like a few years ago – I’d have leapt to the defence of the good ol’ US of A. Now not so much; the new US, post Obama but quite likely even before that disgusting person, is not on “our” side. Eisenhower warned about the excesses of the US Military-Industrial complex. That was nearly 65 years ago and now we have the entire DC swamp, Big Pharma, Big Tech and Big Media to add to our enemies. So yes, the CCP are bloody terrifying, but the forces really running the US might not be much better.
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Its worse than you know
check out ‘Tuya’ and ‘Espressiv’
all manner of chips and software built into consumer devices
and its everywhere
is it is smart, and you can buy it at Bunnings, then it will probably have an ESP chip in it
they are in my doorbell and entry camera
in the little smart switch beside me on the work bench
that little Robot Vacuum cleaner? … they are probably already in your lounge room
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The vac has all you dirt? Lol
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The “privilege” of IOT (internet of things). The things, even with GPS, are anywhere.
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Some young people are really stupid and very narcissistic to put it mildly.
Here’s a teenage Liz Truss addressing a young Lib dems conference in 1994 and a more smart arse, self satisfied little twit you couldn’t imagine.
Now she’s the PM of Gt Britain and regrets that silly, infantile yapping I’m sure. But some former young people never wake up by their 40s or 50s and they’re the people we should be concerned about.
And no doubt they can ignorantly cause a lot damage along the way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLOEwXHP8HI
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Trump was right again, I’ll just add it to the list.
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I am sure that the CCP knows which ‘ordinary’ Australians are on the naughty list, i.e. those who call out, criticise or oppose the CCP. They probably know who we are, where we live where we work, where we go shopping, what we buy and what devices we own.
If China were to successfully invade Australia, it wouldn’t take them long to round up their enemies.
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Australia would be a “walk in” rather than invasion by the Chinese.
For a start you have many politicians more loyal to the CCP than Australia, many trade unions the same and then people who see nothing wrong with the Chicomm way.
Apart from brutal repression of dissent that would follow a Chicomm takeover, the only good thing they would offer for their new colony would be the immediate dismantlement of all wind and solar installations and replacement with coal, gas and nuclear. Their colony would have to have cheap energy to be of use to them.
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I like mandarins though, might I be saved?
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Distancing is not denial
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Intolerance? by any chance?
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You’d think so but “tolerance” is always what’s quoted.
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Interesting. Somehow, I thought ‘tolerance’ was accepting that an alternative viewpoint exists, without necessarily agreeing with it.
OK, you convinced me.
VtI
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I guess it implies that “tolerance” can become so all-pervading that anything is permissible, even that which ought to be intolerable.
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He meant such a LOW level, surely.
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Of course he did, but it’s not necessary to spell it out. E.g. The charge meter was at such a level that he didn’t think his Tesla would make the next town.
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I suspect the use of ‘tolerance’ refers to those people who may secretly disapprove but resist from demonstrating any protest ‘action’ (however minor) in the knowledge the outcome could/would be worse, much worse for them. There were apparently signs of this in the UK’s civil service as long ago as the Blair era and probably more evidence of it having started much earlier than this. Examples included rule bending, including breaches of rules written to prevent such bending, favouritism, isolation of protagonists and nepotism.
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There is a second essay from the same source as this article, going into detail about the huge money behind the renewables push. Mr Gates having quiet words with Mr Machin; renewable manufacturers setting up in Machin’s state. Why the hell not.
https://www.equedia.com/master-puppeteer-inflation-reduction-act/
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And Mr Gates dumping half his Gates Foundation funds into Berkshire Hathaway’s care, and they are quite gung-ho on oil, so Mr Gates can stay squeaky clean.
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Jo,
Asa matter of English expression can I suggest that your headline
” … Operation is conditioning your child through their phone” might be better as
” … Operation is conditioning your children through their phones”
I am too old a traditionalist to join the woke who do not know singular from plural.
Geoff S
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I like it as is as it personalises it
Your second version can be read 2 ways to also imply that the reader has more than one child. The simplest unambiguos and least emotive is
“The Worlds Biggest Stealth Propaganda Operation is conditioning children through their phones.”
I mean the reader, including the childless reader, should be worried about the implication of this happening to other children too.
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The world’s second-largest stealth propaganda operation. The biggest by far is run by the CIA in conjunction with the Silicon Valley tech giants.
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TikTok’s business is making zombies. It might look like the Chinese kids are getting lots of scientific and cultural input through the app but they are being brainwashed into full fledged zombies just the same.
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A few conservative grandparents in this local area have a tranny grandchild in the bunch. All of these conservative parent’s kids (genx) turned out to be rabid leftists after 1980s schooling, and their kids dabble with the tranny stuff. I feel very sorry for these grandparents who are forced to accept it.
Point is it has been happening for quite some time all this subversion stuff. China is just in on the game now too.
But keep in mind, that hard core gamer kids I know of all resort to old fashioned bigotry in their communications on their headsets. Not too many boys don’t find a joke about man on man love funny. Girls however, will report you to the authorities.
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Kingsmen, the movie, was a prediction.
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At least this form of communist kiddie indoctrination isn’t costing the Aussie taxpayer anything – unlike the ABC!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=575EUCVKK-o
Daddy Dan REMOVES need for parental consent
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You can hardly blame the CCP.
They give the ‘free’ West a grenade.
It’s the Western public who decided to pull the pin out whilst holding it.
Let the market decide after all!
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Kids don’t know what they are looking at on their smartphones. Most of them are already zombies, and are easily indoctrinated.
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The internet enabled most of the current issues we have . We are being encouraged to fight each other along political, ethnic, sexual ,racial and scientific lines . Everyone is a victim and has to fight for their rights . We no longer feel safe and that encourages conflict . Technology has become so powerful that it controls us not us control it . We need someone who can unify everyone and get away with it , but their survival would not be permitted . “the people will not revolt . They will not look up from their screens ” is eerily prescient….
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