| These things are not happening in a vacuum: 1. Ellison's comments about surveillance 2. Conservative billionaires, including Ellison, consolidating ownership of social media, print media, TV media, etc. 3. NSPM-7 & the current admin's appetite to criminalize speech 4. The current administration kowtows to Netanyahu, who relishes in conservative ownership of TikTok The dots are all there: if you express something that doesn't following an accepted US stance, like maybe its stance on Israel, maybe on TikTok, it gives Trump the ability to easily find, label & punish you as a terrorist, maybe even at Netanyahu's request. Trump's desire to do things like this has been explicitly stated since the death of Charlie Kirk. He's always talked about his desires to throw his political enemies in jail. Even before this, the admin has been targeting people like Mahmoud Khalil, Mario Guevara, etc. for speech. |