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Two months into trying to understand why a mob of angry protesters violently stormed the US Capitol, a significant influence remains overlooked: TikTok.

In the search for accountability, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube"the perennial havens for disinformation and radicalization"were joined on center stage by a younger fringe platform: Parler. At its apex, the temporarily deprovisioned Parler had fewer than 20 million accounts and peaked at just under 3 million daily active users. TikTok has more than 800 million active users across the world and 50 million in the US who log in every single day.

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Although the Archivist at the time, David Ferriero, had previously expressed support for the ERA, he refused to certify and publish the ERA, citing the Trump administration OLC opinion. Virginia, Nevada, and Illinois sued. They argued that Ferriero had a ministerial duty to certify and publish the ERA, because the Constitution did not grant the Archivist (or any executive branch official) the power to nullify state ratifications of constitutional amendments. The fact that the ratifications came after the deadline did not invalidate them. The states argued that Congress's decision to place the deadline outside the text of the amendment"a departure from Congress's previous practice of placing deadlines in the text of the amendment itself"was pivotal. Furthermore, Article V of the Constitution specifically empowers Congress to do only two things: (1) "propose" amendments, and (2) select one of two "modes" of ratification (state conventions or ratification by state legislatures). It did not empower Congress to place external constraints on how states ratified. Unlike a deadline outside the text,

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June 20th, President Donald Trump showed up in Tulsa, Oklahoma for his first campaign rally after a three-month hiatus. Before the rally, the Trump campaign bragged about the million tickets that had been pre-requested. But when the rally started only 6200 people showed up at the arena, and the President addressed a sea of empty chairs. Politically active young people used TikTok to encourage others to reserve tickets but not show up, thereby forcing Trump to play to an empty room.

Soon thereafter, President Trump released an Executive Order banning Chinese applications TikTok and WeChat in the United States and ordering TikTok's sale to an American company. He argued the companies could release personal data to the Chinese government and therefore represented a national security threat. TikTok now is in talks with Oracle for the sale of its American operations.

www.forbes.com

But what if there's another reason why Trump wants to turn off TikTok, something driven not by high-minded policy but by something as simple as hurt feelings.

A theory explaining all this has quietly and persistently circulated among TikTokers since the ban was first discussed a few weeks ago: What if this has nothing to do with China, nothing to do with national security? What if this does have everything to do with Trump's rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in June? The event was supposed to mark a return to the campaign assemblies that the president covets, a comeback show of force with nearly 20,000 people in attendance after months of Covid 19 lockdown. And it was totally ruined for him by TikTokers and other young people online who coordinated a campaign to register for tickets to the event and never show up. So, what if the ban on TikTok is retaliation for that?

I TOLD YOU SO!!!!!!!!!!!!

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