Opinion by By Kathleen Parker: TikTok might be part of a plot to make us dumber
I happened to catch Karp on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Thursday morning, talking to “Too Big to Fail” author Andrew Ross Sorkin about TikTok. When most people express concern about China’s most insidious export as a national security threat, they tend to think about the platform’s ability to retrieve massive amounts of data. They see TikTok as the ultimate spyware — a cartoonish medium that snatches our secrets while we’re distracted by the vanities.
that Chinese control of TikTok’s algorithm could allow China to deploy influence operations among Western populations.Similar ideas have popped up in modern history. During the Cold War, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev warned that he didn’t need missiles to conquer America. “We will bury you from within,” he supposedly said, meaning that capitalism gradually would lose its luster as Americans grew accustomed to socialist policies spoon-fed to them in small bites.
She was making a video for TikTok, she said. Unable to resist the moment, I asked if I could film her. I’m a reporter, I told her, which is true, and she seemed a worthy subject — for purposes heretofore unrealized.I only summarize her performance with a few adjectives: uninhibited, scanty, sexy. You get the picture. An exhibitionist gotta exhibit, I suppose.
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