The backlash growing after Osama bin Laden's repulsive letter to America, which justifies the 9/11 terror attacks, went viral on TikTok. The New York Post cover today summing it up this way, World Gone Madman. Tiktokers now praise Osama bin Laden in shocking new low. Video shared with the hashtag, Letter to America, had more than 14 million views. But TikTok claims only a small number of people were sharing the videos condoning Bin Laden. Tiktok says it plans to scrub any praise of the letter from the platform, saying in a statement, quote, We are proactively and aggressively removing this content and investigating how it got onto our platform. The number of videos on TikTok is small, and reports of it trending on our platform are inaccurate. This is not unique to TikTok and has appeared across multiple platforms in the media. It's no surprise, families of the nearly 3,000 individuals brutally murdered on September 11th are outraged by people praising Bin Laden's hateful letter. One son of a 9/11 victim telling the Daily Mail, quote, It's hard to watch. Perhaps what they don't realize is that the radical terrorists they are giving credibility to wouldn't hesitate a second to take them hostage or kill them or their families.

It's time to re-educate Americans what happened to us on 9/11. Calls to ban the social media app entirely are swirling once again. Here's Nikki Haley.

I have long said that we have to ban TikTok. If you didn't know why, there's another example. They are posting letters of Osama bin Laden's letter the week after the 9/11 attack, and it is the justification for why he did it. And so you have a lot of our kids sitting there siding with that that, Oh, America deserved it at that time. If you don't see that for the Chinese intrusion and the foreign ability to message out there to Americans, it is a national security threat.

Ari.

Your reaction? Yeah, there's so much to begin with here. First of all, can you imagine 20 years after Pearl Harbor, 20 years after the Nazi invasion of France, if Americans in the '60s were saying, Hitler's got some good points, that's the equivalent of what's happening now. It didn't happen then. It's happening now in so much part because teachers have abandoned teaching how great America is and how terrible terrorism is. This moral equivalence. Let's look at it with fresh eyes, as opposed to look at it with pro-American. America is great. These people, there's something wrong with them. And that's what our students need to learn. It's called patriotism, love a country for the right reasons and based on history. As for TikTok, look, I'm not in the banned TikTok category because I don't know that it works. I just don't know that you can hold technology down. Something else is going to pop up. I would so much rather see young people go on TikTok and win the fight. Correct this. If your dad or your mom was killed on September 11th, and maybe you never really got to know your parents because you were too young, you're the TikTok generation.

These kids, these 20-year-olds now, they need to go on TikTok and be more viral than that woman who started this pro Osama bin Laden TikTok. It's in the power of the good people to communicate better. And that's what I would like to see. Rather than banning, if they want to ban it, maybe the one day they'll ban it. But until that day, let the better messages prevail and the better messages are in the hands of Americans who love this country.

Lisa, Biden's White House did come out and denounced the Ben Laden letter to America TikTok trend. One of the words this statement used was repugnant. But at the same time, Axios comes out with a report just today. Biden's team ways joining TikTok to court young voters. Oh, dear. You know, the Osama bin Laden is lit voter? Is that who they're eyeballing? Because that's clearly a large part of the people on TikTok are willingly diving into that sewage lagoon.

I mean, this administration continues to speak outside of both sides of their mouth because I think they're looking at votes and trying to bring in reliable Democratic voters in the 2024 election. But look, if you're China and you wanted to destroy a country, would you be doing anything different than poisoning the minds of our youth through TikTok. I mean, politicians have pointed out that at one point I think there were something like three million videos featuring #freePalestine and only something like 39,000 featuring Stand Israel. So I think there's something to be said there. But that being said, we've also done this for ourselves, right? With all this diversity, equity, inclusion, garbage, with this oppressor versus oppressed, with cuddling of social justice words, with excusing Black Lives Matter, burning down cities throughout an entire summer, fiery but peaceful, right? We've also done this to herself, and now we're dealing with the consequences of it, of a broken nation that is really destroying itself from within.

Emily?

Yeah, I appreciate your point so much, Ari, and I think the problem with calls to ban TikTok is that it seems like an over-generalized or is an over-generalized, frankly, unworkable, impractical solution to the real problem that I see, which is China's infection of this country. I hope and look forward to our candidates and eventually our lawmakers articulating exactly how they will push back against China, how they will push back on business leaders who change their software and their hardware while they make it from little Chinese elves because it's cheap labor for them over there. We are absolutely beholden to that market and to the CCP, and yet we act like, Well, we should ban that. Then it looks like we're trying to stamp on free speech. I thought Nellie Bowles had a really interesting point for you, Press, where she said, It's arguably that de-platforming that woman who first posted it might have been an overreaction. Perhaps identify. I want to know exactly who sympathizes with Osama bin Laden's disgusting framework, disgusting approach, because I want to know so that I can be identified so I could have nothing to do with them so I can make sure to know who the enemies are among us, which I think is in the interest of free speech, it's a really solid argument.

Although that list is getting pretty big these days.

There's a.

Question that needs to be answered. Did any money change hands to start this TikTok trend? To you, finally.

Yeah, I think this is a representation of the Echo Chamber that's out there. And it does relate right back to what you share, Ari, is that we're not teaching our kids the values of America and what attaches to the greatness of America. It goes back to not standing up for the flag. You might have a reason not to stand up, but there are so many reasons to stand up. And if we don't look at those reasons and teach them to our children, they hear on TikTok a reason to do the bad, a reason to go the other way. Also, a point is the letter to America has also been in other places besides TikTok. It was just taken off The Guardian a few days ago. It was there in its full context for more than 20 years. But we have to be supportive of free speech at the same time as teaching our children how to discern from right and wrong. It's critical.

That was so well said. But as the Wall Street Journal wrote, Would the US have let the Soviet Union buy MTV in the 1980s?

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