House Staffers Say Kids Are Calling With Suicide Threats Over Bill Regulating TikTok
"It’s so so bad. Our phones have not stopped ringing.”
Congressional staffers say offices have been besieged with calls from distressed teens threatening suicide over a bill that would regulate use of the app TikTok in the U.S.
"It’s so so bad. Our phones have not stopped ringing. They’re teenagers and old people saying they spend their whole day on the app and we cant [sic] take it away," one House staffer told Politico.
Reporter Matthew Foldi of The Spectator shared on X that at least two House offices reported receiving calls from teens who threatened to kill themselves if lawmakers vote on the bill.
Although the bipartisan legislation simply seeks to ban the app if its Chinese Communist Party-linked owners do not sell, TikTok has been sending users notifications that Congress has plans to outright ban the app and urging them to contact their lawmakers.
The owners, ByteDance, have long been accused of being too well-positioned to hand over data from millions of Americans to the Chinese regime.
"The frantic, deranged lobbying from TikTok, including alleged suicide threats, is a reminder: This app is toxic. It's poison," Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas wrote on X. "We will be far better off and safer if this spy tool for the Chinese Communist Party is banned."
The House voted Wednesday to pass the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act with strong bipartisan support and a vote of 352 in favor and 65 opposed.
The national security threat posed by TikTok in the U.S. is massive. It’s impossible to imagine our data and privacy hasn’t already been well compromised.
Yet add to this the fact that TikTok is being used to promulgate dangerous, harmful, and false information about everything ranging from abortion and pornography to transgender surgeries and current events.
Children are being sucked in and brainwashed by graphic, explicit, deceptive, and even demonic media through TikTok and what’s more, it’s been well-established that the app is a playground for child predators and child pornography.
Let us pray against the way the devil has used this demonic app for his purposes and trust in the One Whose truth will win out in the end!