"The more crazy the enemy, the more scared it is!"
Don't say it, don't say it, TikTok is good! Zhang Yiming is good!
It's just that the United States is so big that it can't accommodate TikTok, a social media platform with 170 million young American users.
On April 24, U.S. President Joe Biden signed a bill that would force ByteDance to divest its app TikTok from its U.S. business. Under the terms, ByteDance was given a deadline of about nine months to divest its U.S. operations or face a nationwide ban.
Immediately afterward, TikTok issued a statement saying that it would challenge the ban in court.
Some people ask, what exactly is the United States afraid of?
In fact, the United States is afraid that TikTok will steal its right to speak and challenge its "hegemony of public opinion".
Through TikTok, Americans learned the truth about the "Palestinian-Israeli conflict", witnessed Israel's massacre of civilians in Gaza, and the voices against Israel's invasion of Gaza grew louder.
On 26 February this year, there was even a tragic incident in which a US GI went to the Israeli Embassy in the United States to set himself on fire to protest Israel's massacre of Palestine.
In this way, the "Jewish capital" of the United States cannot sit still. This is the scandal of the Senate and House of Representatives passing and Biden signing the bill.
It turns out that the so-called "freedom of speech" in the United States is nothing more than that.
The United States is already a rusty "giant ship", and the challenge of the hegemony of public opinion is only the beginning of its sinking.