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The TikTok Truth 📱





You’ve probably caught wind of the buzz surrounding our new TikTok legislation
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want to clear the air on a few things.



Contrary to the chatter, the bill we passed
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in the House doesn’t ban TikTok—yet. We’re simply trying to get the app out
from under the Communist Chinese government’s thumb.



No one believes in freedom more than I do; you folks know that by now. I’m
willing to admit I was a bit uneasy about some of the things in this bill, but
overall, I’m confident we’re on the right track.



TikTok's parent company, ByteDance
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, isn't a random private company that happens to be located in China. The
Chinese Communist Party controls ByteDance, making it part of China's military
complex. Keeping ByteDance-owned TikTok on our phones is like allowing the CCP
to peer into Americans’ everyday lives, harvest our data, andbrainwash
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our kids along the way.



Our office phones were flooded this week
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with teens who were highly emotional about this move. Some eventhreatened
suicide
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if we ban this thing, and if that doesn’t scare the living daylights out of
you, I don’t know what will. Do we need any more proof that TikTok is a toxic
force that’sdestroying our children
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?



Something of this magnitude with such an enormous level of influence
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can’t be trusted in the hands of the Chinese, Iranians, or Russians. To get it
under American oversight, this bill requires ByteDance
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, TikTok’s parent company, to sell the app within six months. If they brush us
off, that’s when it will disappear from U.S. app stores and hosting services.



To stop this fiasco from happening again, the bill also gives the president
power to ask other foreign adversary-controlled apps to sell off if they pose a
national security threat and have more than a million monthly users.



But while the House really rallied around this bill, its future is on shaky
ground in the Senate.
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If it sees the light of day on the other side, the folks over at TikTok have
some big decisions to make.



So, could TikTok be on the chopping block? Only time will tell.



All this boils down to protecting Americans, especially our children, from bad
actors who don’t have our best interests in mind. It’s a responsibility I don’t
take lightly, and I’m hopeful we can find our way out of this mess.




 



St. Patrick’s Day in East Tennessee 🍀

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Courtesy of WVLT
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A sea of green will take to the streets of Knoxville this weekend for our
annual St. Patrick’s Day parade! In case you missed it,WalletHub
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ranked Knoxville at #13 on their list of the best cities to celebrate St.
Patrick’s Day—and it’s easy to see why.



According to the Knoxville History Project
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our St. Patrick’s Day celebrations date all the way back to the 1850s, which
makes sense when you consider many of our early founders were Irish immigrants.



After the parade was canceled three years in a row due to COVID and weather,
last year was a huge hit. Chilly temperatures couldn’t stop crowds from showing
up in droves, and I have a feeling we can expect the same kind of enthusiasm
this year. It’s an event that always brings our community together, and for
that, I’m grateful!



Put on your green gear and join the fun tomorrow at 1 p.m. in downtown
Knoxville. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!




 



Just For Fun 🎉




→ Big brother’s pep talk 🫶 (Instagram
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→ Plenty of fish in the sea 🐟 (X
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→ Feline fee forgiveness 🐈 (Fox News
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)




 



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