A woman on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tiktok">TikTok</a> participating in the viral trend of dancing to the Meghan Trainor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music">song</a> “Made You Look” came under fire for relating the story of her husband’s tragic death while she danced.
Jessica Ayers, who uses the handle “thesingingwidow,” has since deleted the video from TikTok it generated so many negative comments, but it’s currently circulating on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/social-media">Twitter</a> with 5.6 million views as of Wednesday. 
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my💃🏼husband💃🏼was💃🏼brutally💃🏼murdered💃🏼 <a href="https://t.co/Gj6tbEui2d">pic.twitter.com/Gj6tbEui2d</a>
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In the clip, on-screen captions narrate what happened while Ayers dances along to the upbeat music.
“Eight years ago, a man shot and killed my husband … 11 months later, the man who shot him was convicted of manslaughter,” the captions say. “On the day of his sentencing, I gave a speech. I told his killer our love story.”
“I also told him that if he ever started to feel sorry for himself, to remember my face. It remains one of my proudest moments in life,” she concluded.
Critics came after Ayers both on social media and in the comments. She later deleted the video. 
“The advent of tiktok and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race,” one person <a href="https://twitter.com/ycsm1n/status/1594877467365617666">shared</a>.
“Yep, her entire social media personality [centers] this traumatic experience for her and it’s a direct example of how social media takes advantage of the most susceptible of humanity&#8217;s desire for attention and walks them right off a cliff in terms of social behavior. sad,” the Twitter user <a href="https://twitter.com/ycsm1n/status/1594881288225587200" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
While the original video is gone, Ayers posted a follow-up clip that features her answering the question, “Just curious why would you dance to something so traumatic?”
“Eight years ago, my entire life went up in flames,” she <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thesingingwidow/video/7168339715215740206?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1">replied</a>. “Everything I knew, everything I loved, right when I became a mom — literally my whole life blew up.”
“I made a decision, maybe a year and a half in, that I wasn’t going to let the grief take me down and turn me into a shell of the person that I used to be,” she continued. “… yeah, I’m f***ing dancing, because why not? I’m happy again, and I’m proud of how far I’ve come.”
“How many people that are on here being negative about me dancing because I’m happy again, can say that I made you look, right?”
<a href="https://www.newsherald.com/story/news/crime/2014/06/26/1-338468/33941512007/">According to</a> the Panama City News Herald, Justin Ayers, 33, was killed by a stray bullet fired by his neighbor Charles Edward Shisler in 2014. Justin was gathered with his family in his home to celebrate his 3-day-old baby coming home from the hospital. The bullet struck him in the back of the head, killing him instantly. Shisler later pleaded guilty to manslaughter and in May 2015 was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Jessica Ayers initially told her story to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3761912/Jessica-Ayers-husband-Justin-Ayers-shot-killed-Charles-Shisler-Panama-City-writes-essay-grieving.html">The Daily Mail</a> that same year and published an essay on her blog about the tragedy. 
Critics of Ayers&#8217;s dance video compared it to another TikTok clip showing a mom who danced while her sick baby was in the hospital. In December 2021, Whitney Leavitt (username whitleavitt) posted a now-deleted <a href="https://www.distractify.com/p/tiktok-mom-dance-next-to-rsv-baby">video</a> of herself dancing to Kendrick Lamar’s &#8220;Love&#8221; right next to her son&#8217;s hospital bassinet.  
She captioned the video with text saying, &#8220;Lil Lee was taken in &#8217;cause of low oxygen. He tested positive for RSV. Waiting for him to breathe better on his own.&#8221;

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Widow On TikTok Goes Viral For Dancing About Her Husband's Tragic Death

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FBI Director Christopher Wray told Homeland Security Committee House members Tuesday that the video-sharing app TikTok poses national security threats from the Chinese Communist Party.
Concerns from Wray and the FBI come off the heels of Federal Communications Commission officials urging the U.S. government to ban the app to protect American citizens&#8217; private data, citing issues with controlling the information flow back to Beijing. TikTok officials denounced the federal agency&#8217;s accusations, saying FCC officials have no role in the confidential discussions with the U.S. government related to the app.
&#8220;We do have national security concerns — at least from the FBI&#8217;s end — about TikTok,&#8221; Wray said in a hearing focused on <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/activities/hearings/11/04/2022/worldwide-threats-to-the-homeland">Worldwide Threats to the Homeland</a>. &#8220;They include the possibility that the Chinese government could use it to control data collection on millions of users. Or control the recommendation algorithm, which could be used for influence operations if they so chose. Or to control software on millions of devices, which gives it opportunity to potentially technically compromise personal devices.&#8221;
Chinese tech giant ByteDance owns TikTok, which currently has more than 200 million downloads in the United States — and according to Fox Business, the company must share its data with the CCP upon request, as required by Chinese law.
Wray confirmed that Chinese companies must &#8220;do whatever the Chinese government wants them to in terms of sharing information or serving as a tool of the Chinese government.&#8221;
&#8220;And so that&#8217;s plenty of reason by itself to be extremely concerned,&#8221; he added.
Vanessa Pappas, a TikTok executive, told U.S. Congress earlier this year that the social media app was making &#8220;progress toward a final agreement with the U.S. government to further safeguard U.S user data and fully address U.S. national security interests,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-fbi-director-says-tiktok-poses-national-security-concerns-2022-11-15/">Reuters</a>.
Aynne Kokas, professor of media studies and the director of the East Asia Center at the University of Virginia, told <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/11/16/1137076864/fbi-says-china-could-use-tiktok-to-spy-on-americans-including-government-workers">NPR</a> that the Chinese government uses TikTok to expand extra-territorial control over digital platforms.
&#8220;The Chinese government has allowed for and has encouraged Chinese firms to actually engage in national security data on any data that&#8217;s been gathered by a Chinese firm,&#8221; Kokas said.
Chinese companies operate several apps used by Americans every day, which has sparked concern among U.S. lawmakers about the effectiveness of banning only one program.
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI) announced last month they would introduce legislation prohibiting TikTok in the United States, outlining the threat that TikTok and other social media businesses that the CCP effectively manages pose to the nation.
Kokas recently published her new book &#8216;Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty,&#8217; which examines how tech ecosystems in the U.S. expand to data-gathering by the Chinese government.
She said Rubio and Gallagher&#8217;s bill presents challenges to protecting American citizens&#8217; data privacy.
&#8220;When we look at all of these wide-ranging apps that are connected to Chinese firms, it&#8217;s actually almost nonsensical to ban just one when we see platforms in areas like precision, agriculture, communications, gaming — all connected to Chinese firms,&#8221; Kokas said, &#8220;So it&#8217;s really important to develop more robust data privacy regulations in the United States to protect users.&#8221;
Former President Donald Trump signed an executive order before leaving office that banned the app from the U.S. in 2020. However, the Biden administration later reversed the order and called for a security review of the app.

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‘We Do Have National Security Concerns’: FBI Director Warns Chinese Communist Party Uses TikTok To Compromise American Privacy

FBI Director Warns TikTok Poses National Security Concerns

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Christopher Wray

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TikTok allegedly has child sex abuse material hiding in plain sight all over the social media platform, according to a Forbes investigative <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2022/11/11/tiktok-private-csam-child-sexual-abuse-material/?sh=6ae568313ad9&amp;utm_source=ForbesMainTwitter&amp;utm_campaign=socialflowForbesMainTwitter&amp;utm_medium=social">report</a>.
According to the report, graphic social media content depicting lewd and pornographic acts from minors is easy to come across on the video-sharing app.
&#8220;They typically read like advertisements and come from seemingly innocuous accounts,&#8221; Forbes reports. &#8220;But often, they&#8217;re portals to illegal child sexual abuse material quite literally hidden in plain sight—posted in private accounts using a setting that makes it visible only to the person logged in.&#8221;
The grotesque material can be found in &#8220;post-in-private&#8221; accounts, which predators easily access using specific phrases to avoid algorithms that would lead to a violation.
According to Forbes, Seara Adair, child sexual abuse survivor and children&#8217;s safety advocate, told a TikTok employee that she believes users bypass the AI system by posting a few seconds of a black screen.
&#8220;There&#8217;s quite literally accounts that are full of child abuse and exploitation material on their platform,&#8221; Adair told Forbes. &#8220;Not only does it happen on their platform, but quite often it leads to other platforms &#8211; where it becomes even more dangerous.&#8221;
Adair claims to have seen videos showing &#8220;a child completely naked and doing indecent things.&#8221;
A Forbes investigator reports several of the post-in-private handles were easy to access, others would require pledges to contribute images, and some recruited girls at least 13 years old.
Mahsau Cullinane, a spokesperson for TikTok, said in an email to Forbes that the platform has &#8220;zero tolerance for child sexual abuse material and this abhorrent behavior which is strictly prohibited on our platform.&#8221; adding that the company has every public and private video posted on the platform go through TikTok&#8217;s AI moderation and additional human review, if needed.
TikTok officials told Forbes that direct messages are also subject to monitoring, and accounts that obtain or distribute child sexual abuse material are removed.
&#8220;When we become aware of any content, we immediately remove it, ban accounts, and make reports to [the National Center for Missing &amp; Exploited Children],&#8221; Cullinane said.
Haley McNamara, director of the International Centre on Sexual Exploitation, told Forbes that major social media apps all share the same child sex abuse material problem.
&#8220;There is this trend of either closed spaces or semi-closed spaces that become easy avenues for networking of child abusers, people wanting to trade child sexual abuse materials,&#8221; she told Forbes. &#8220;Those kinds of spaces have also historically been used for grooming and even selling or advertising people for sex trafficking.&#8221;
McNamara added, &#8220;what happens in practice is the real test,&#8221; despite TikTok&#8217;s safety policies to protect minors from exploitation.
TikTok has been making headlines recently after federal communication officials urged the U.S. government to ban the video-sharing app TikTok to protect American citizens&#8217; private data.
Brendan Carr, one of five commissioners for the Federal Communications Commission, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-government-urged-to-ban-tiktok-by-fcc-commissioner-warning-user-data-allegedly-flow-back-to-chinese-communist-party">told</a> Axios the federal agency could not regulate the social media app and the data flow back to Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Chinese tech giant ByteDance owns TikTok, which currently has more than 200 million downloads in the United States — and according to Fox Business, the company must share its data with the CCP upon request, as required by law.
TikTok officials responded to the FCC in a statement to Axios, affirmed the company remains confident that it’s on a path to reaching an agreement regarding national security concerns with the federal government.
“Commissioner Carr has no role in the confidential discussions with the U.S. government related to TikTok and appears to be expressing views independent of his role as an FCC commissioner,” a TikTok spokesperson told <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/11/01/interview-fcc-commissioner-says-government-should-ban-tiktok">Axios</a>.
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI) are introducing legislation prohibiting TikTok in the United States, outlining the threat that TikTok and other social media businesses that the CCP effectively manages pose to the nation.

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Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI) are introducing legislation that <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/republicans-introduce-bill-to-ban-tiktok/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">would</a> prohibit <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tiktok" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok</a> in the United States.
In an opinion piece <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/10/marco-rubio-ban-tiktok-america-china-mike-gallagher/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> in The Washington Post on Thursday, Rubio and Gallagher outlined the threat that TikTok and other social media businesses that are effectively managed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) pose to the United States.
The lawmakers noted how the TikTok social media platform is owned by ByteDance, which is a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chinese</a> company, although it is not owned by the Chinese government. However, they stated, “in China, no company is truly private” because China’s National Intelligence Law of 2017 holds that all people and companies must help with intelligence, including sharing information.
Several of ByteDance’s directors also used to work for outlets that spread CCP messaging and propaganda and at least 15 ByteDance workers are currently employed by them, the legislators wrote.
The security risks of TikTok usage have been raised as a concern by many people over the past several years, and the lawmakers are the most recent to do so in a substantive way that could result in shutting down the app in the United States.
They pointed out that the TikTok app can track where users are physically located and gather information about which websites they are visiting, even if they are on unconnected sites.
They also note the concern about TikTok’s algorithm, which can be changed by the manufacturers at any point without telling the people who use the app. The potential indoctrination of Americans is alarming, they said, and the app has already restricted speech about issues like human rights abuses against Uyghurs and the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.
The legislators also pointed to a Pew Research Center <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/10/21/more-americans-are-getting-news-on-tiktok-bucking-the-trend-on-other-social-media-sites/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> that revealed an increasing amount of American adults are getting their news information from TikTok. The share has gone from 3% of U.S. adults in 2020 to 10% in 2022.
“TikTok is a major threat to U.S. national security. Yet Biden is encouraging greater engagement with the platform by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/27/tiktok-democrats-influencers-biden/?itid=lk_inline_manual_26" target="_blank" rel="noopener">directly courting</a> TikTok influencers,” they added.
They discussed a New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/technology/tiktok-national-security-china.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from September that found the Biden administration created a preliminary deal with TikTok to fix national security issues. The agreement would not force TikTok to find a new owner, but the app would need to alter its personnel and data storage, according to the Times.
“Anything short of a complete separation” of TikTok from owner ByteDance “will likely leave significant national security issues regarding operations, data and algorithms unresolved,” Rubio said in a statement at the time.
“Congress needs to act against the TikTok threat before it’s too late,” the lawmakers concluded.

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Republican Lawmakers To Introduce Legislation Banning TikTok In U.S.

Republican Lawmakers Rubio And Gallagher To Introduce Legislation Banning TikTok In U.S.

Marco Rubio

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/comedy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Comedian</a> George Lopez recently revealed the moment he decided to reconcile with his estranged daughter, Mayan.
The 61-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">actor</a> discussed some personal details of his family drama while promoting the new series “Lopez vs. Lopez,” which is a fictional version of what he went through with his real daughter.
&#8220;I was divorced, and then Mayan and I didn&#8217;t talk for a long time,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lopez</a> said during an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVrb7GT1A0A">appearance</a> on &#8220;The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.&#8221;
&#8220;She went on TikTok to respond to a video that someone made attacking me. It was a video of her twerking upside down,” Lopez continued. &#8220;I realized I wasn&#8217;t the best dad, but when your kid&#8217;s twerking upside down, you&#8217;ve got some real f***ing problems. I didn&#8217;t realize it was this serious.&#8221;
Seeing Mayan twerking made the comedian realize he had to “get out there” and talk to his daughter again, which led to them entering therapy together.
&#8220;You have to be responsible for the trauma that you&#8217;ve caused,&#8221; Lopez continued.
The former “Lopez Tonight” host said it all led to him taking responsibility. &#8220;I&#8217;m owning, for the first time in my life, my responsibility to the marriage and as a father,&#8221; he told Fallon during the appearance. &#8220;I said, ‘Yeah, I’m responsible for this, and I&#8217;m going to spend the rest of my life repairing it.'&#8221;
As for being in therapy, Lopez described it as a difficult but beneficial process. 
“If you think therapy is bad, what&#8217;s worse is the elevator ride down after because it&#8217;s all heavy stuff,&#8221; he quipped. &#8220;You almost have to stagger it out, like when you dine and dash, somebody goes out the back, somebody goes out the front. Don&#8217;t go in the same car when you&#8217;re doing trauma therapy.&#8221;
The father and daughter duo previously spoke about how the pandemic helped them fix their relationship.
&#8220;There was a time where we didn&#8217;t speak and were estranged for about three years,&#8221; Mayan said during a virtual press conference, <a href="https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/TV/2022/11/02/george-lopez-mayan-lopez-ninterview/1831667321560/">according</a> to UPI.
&#8220;Really, the pandemic brought us back together. I started making TikToks with my family to reconnect, and [showrunner] Debby Wolfe saw one of [the videos], and this whole ‘Lopez vs. Lopez’ idea was kind of born from that idea. This is an experience of a lifetime to be able to do this with my father.&#8221;
Lopez agreed, saying, &#8220;To have Debby see Mayan do TikToks about our unfortunate break in our relationship and create a beautiful thing from something that was so painful and so much my fault is just a wonderful thing.&#8221;

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George Lopez Entered Trauma Therapy With Daughter After She Twerked Upside Down In TikTok Video

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Rapper <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ice-t">Ice-T</a>’s wife, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Coco Austin,</a> has a message for her critics, saying that her 6-year-old daughter’s sexy dance moves don’t come from her — they’re from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tiktok">TikTok</a>.
The 43-year-old actress has been frequently called out for her less-than-mainstream parenting tactics, including putting <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/parents">daughter</a> Chanel in a stroller even at the age of 6 and bathing her in the kitchen sink. Austin addressed some of these issues plus more while speaking with <a href="https://pagesix.com/2022/11/01/coco-austin-hits-back-at-parenting-trolls/">Page Six</a> this week at Heidi Klum’s Halloween party.
“They’re like, on me,” she told the publication. “But the thing is, everybody’s a hypocrite I feel because they do certain weird things in their house.”
“I don’t think that bathing my daughter in the sink is weird. If I have a huge-ass sink, why not? It’s just easier for me,” Austin continued. “And if I have to carry her everywhere and it’s just easier to bring a stroller, why not? She’s petite, she’s super small, and it’s easier.”
She said: “I just don’t understand. Why go after me over something so stupid? It’s a stroller. It’s our baby in a sink. Like, come on people, next thing you’re going to say, ‘Oh, you’re kissing her wrong,’ you know?”
Next, Ice-T’s wife mentioned how she has to be “very careful because everybody says I do play the sexy mom role, they’re always looking at me under a microscope.”
“I’m very, very protective of her, and going after me for these little things while there’s war? I’m like, ‘Really guys, you’re gonna go after me?’ Does that even make sense?” she said, confirming that she “knows what’s right and wrong” for Chanel.
“Chanel really likes social media right now and it’s scary just to see she’s very innocent about the world,” Austin confessed. “In my eyes, there are things that I have to crank down and be like, ‘Babe, the world won’t see it the way you see it.’ We see it but can’t post it.”
The mom of one said now her daughter has learned to post on social media without supervision.
“Chanel knows how to post before asking me now so I don’t know what will be posted before and I’m not worried what she might post but what other people might think of the postings,” she said.
“There was a really sexy dance and I was like, ‘Yo, where did that come from?’ Because that was not from me,” Austin continued. “Everyone’s going to say it’s from me, but that wasn’t from me…She watches all these TikTokers and she wants to emulate them.”

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Ice-T’s Wife Insists 6-Year-Old Didn’t Learn Sexy Dance From Her, It Was All TikTok

Ice-T's Wife Insists 6-Year-Old Didn't Learn Sexy Dance From Her, It Was All TikTok

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Federal communication officials urged the U.S. government Tuesday to ban the video-sharing app <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tiktok" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok</a> in a plea to protect the private data of American citizens.
Brendan Carr, one of five commissioners for the Federal Communications Commission, told <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/11/01/interview-fcc-commissioner-says-government-should-ban-tiktok" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a> the federal agency could not regulate the social media app and that the data flow back to Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Chinese tech giant ByteDance owns TikTok, which currently has more than 200 million downloads in the United States — and according to <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/fcc-commissioner-urges-us-government-ban-tiktok" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox Business</a>, the company must share its data with the CCP upon request, as required by law.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t believe there is a path forward for anything other than a ban,&#8221; Carr said, adding that there isn&#8217;t &#8220;a world in which you could come up with sufficient protection on the data that you could have sufficient confidence that it&#8217;s not finding its way back into the hands of the [Chinese Communist Party].&#8221;
The U.S. Council on Foreign Investment recently launched an investigation into TikTok regarding whether the app could divest from ByteDance and allow it to operate in the U.S., which former President Trump had suggested while in office. The investigation came after China reportedly planned to use the platform to track the location of specific American citizens.
TikTok officials responded to the FCC in a statement to Axios, affirmed the company remains confident that it&#8217;s on a path to reaching an agreement regarding national security concerns with the federal government.
&#8220;Commissioner Carr has no role in the confidential discussions with the U.S. government related to TikTok and appears to be expressing views independent of his role as an FCC commissioner,&#8221; a TikTok spokesperson told Axios.
Leaked audio obtained by BuzzFeed News in June revealed that China had accessed U.S. TikTok user data for months while U.S. employees did not have access themselves. The audio covered more than 80 internal meetings at the social media company between September 2021 and January 2022.
Former President Trump signed an executive order before leaving office that banned the app from the U.S. in 2020. However, the Biden administration reversed the order and called for a security review of the app.
U.S. politicians have shown heavy disapproval for the video-sharing platform due to its ties with the Chinese government — with even Democrats admitting Trump was right to sign the previous executive order.
&#8220;This is not something you would normally hear me say, but Donald Trump was right on TikTok years ago,&#8221; Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said last week, according to Axios. &#8220;If your country uses Huawei, if your kids are on TikTok … the ability for China to have undue influence is a much greater challenge and a much more immediate threat than any kind of actual, armed conflict.&#8221;

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Federal Government Urged To Ban TikTok By FCC Commissioner, Warning User Data Allegedly Flows Back To Chinese Communist Party

Federal Government Urged To Ban TikTok By FCC Commissioner, Warning User Data Allegedly Flow Back To Chinese Communist Party

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender">Trans-identifying</a> activist Dylan Mulvaney formulated a response for fellow trans-identifying celebrity Caitlyn Jenner after Jenner criticized the social media influencer publicly.
Fresh off a meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House, Mulvaney specifically addressed the video to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/caitlyn-jenner">Jenner</a>. 
“We are two of the most <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">privileged</a> trans women in America at the moment,” the TikTok <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@dylanmulvaney/video/7160492944112291118?embed_source=70805737%2C70805737%2C70805737%2C70755320%2C120009725%2C120008483%3Bnull%3Bembed_masking&amp;is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;refer=embed&amp;referer_url=www.rollingstone.com%2Fculture%2Fculture-news%2Fdylan-mulvaney-caitlyn-jenner-transgender-1234621235%2F&amp;referer_video_id=7160492944112291118">video</a> begins as Mulvaney urged Jenner to stop using Twitter to “degrade” other members of the trans movement. 
Mulvaney referenced a tweet from Jenner responding to a post from Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), who tweeted out a video of Mulvaney talking about normalizing “women having bulges.” 
“He is talking about his penis,” Jenner wrote, a response Mulvaney claimed caused a lot of turmoil. 
“Normalize the bulge,” Mulvaney sang in the clip while wearing tight shorts. “We are normalizing the bulge. Women can have bulges, and that’s ok. We’re not gonna stare at their crotches.” 
Blackburn said Mulvaney’s idea was “absurdity,” to which Jenner <a href="https://twitter.com/Caitlyn_Jenner/status/1585703336979873793">replied</a>, “There is a difference between acceptance and tolerance, and normalizing exposing your genitals in a public way and a public place,” Jenner tweeted. “I do not support that at all, in the slightest. Dylan…congrats your trans with a penis.”
“Let’s not ‘normalize’ any of what this person is doing,” Jenner wrote.
“Not you calling me a ‘he’! That is just, oh, terrible,” Mulvaney tells Jenner in the clip. “You’re making me sound like I’m some creepy flasher exposing myself,” the influencer complained of Jenner’s tweet. “I was wearing perfectly normal shorts at a mall.” 
“This whole situation makes me not want to share my surgical plans,” Mulvaney says. “A trans person invalidating another trans person’s transness is pretty evil.”
Later in the clip, Mulvaney said this issue extends beyond the argument about “women with bulges” and is about trans rights more generally. The TikTok star also questioned Jenner being a Republican. 
“You’ve been accepted by a group of people that clearly does not accept me, and nearly every day this week, I have been called a freak, a child predator, an absurdity,” Mulvaney said. 
“I am none of those things that your cohorts are painting me to be, and my question for you is: don’t you feel a little lonely over there? These people that you’re standing with, I don’t know if they have your best intentions at heart. But they will use you to make me and the trans community’s life a lot harder than it already is.”
“I didn’t start ‘Days of Girlhood’ because being a woman sounded fun. I started this series because of the unspoken shame of being newly trans,” Mulvaney said. “I am moving on, onward and upward, and I hope you do too.”

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‘Pretty Evil’: Trans Activist Dylan Mulvaney Calls Out Caitlyn Jenner For Public Criticism

Trans Activist Dylan Mulvaney Calls Out Caitlyn Jenner For Public Criticism

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A top Democratic lawmaker told an Australian audience this week that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-kills-trump-ban-on-tiktok-and-other-chinese-apps-accused-of-spying-instead-asks-for-further-investigation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">former President Trump</a> was right when he warned that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tiktok-responds-to-explosive-report-alleging-plans-to-track-locations-of-specific-americans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok was a tool of the Chinese</a> Communist Party.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tiktok-responds-to-explosive-report-alleging-plans-to-track-locations-of-specific-americans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia Sen. Mark Warner</a>, who heads the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, offered rare praise to Trump, whose 2020 bid to ban the app was blocked by a federal court. Trump then tried to force the CCP-controlled company ByteDance to relinquish its ability to access U.S. users’ data, but the Biden administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-kills-trump-ban-on-tiktok-and-other-chinese-apps-accused-of-spying-instead-asks-for-further-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shelved that plan last year</a>.
&#8220;This is not something you would normally hear me say, but Donald Trump was right on TikTok years ago,&#8221; Warner said, <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/trump-was-right-on-tiktok-threat-leading-democrat-20221024-p5bsd3.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the Sydney Morning Herald</a>.
Warner, during a visit to fellow “Five Eyes” country Australia to meet with intel officials, political leaders, and business people, said the U.S. military bars service members from downloading TikTok’s app. Parents should be worried about the addictive platform being used by China to harvest data on their children, he said.
Warner listed the 1 billion-active-user social media platform as one of several Chinese-controlled tech companies that can be turned against users.
<div id="attachment_456169" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-456169" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-456169 size-large" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/GettyImages-1357716031-864x576.jpg" alt="Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, who heads the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, offered rare praise to Trump, who initially sought to ban the app, but in 2020 threatened to shut down its U.S. operation unless the CCP-controlled company ByteDance relinquished its ability to access U.S. users’ data." width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/10/GettyImages-1357716031-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/10/GettyImages-1357716031-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/10/GettyImages-1357716031-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/10/GettyImages-1357716031-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/10/GettyImages-1357716031-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/10/GettyImages-1357716031-1800x1200.jpg 1800w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/10/GettyImages-1357716031-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" />Virginia Democrat Sen. Mark Warner told an Australian audience former President Trump was right to be concerned about TikTok. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)</div>
&#8220;If your country uses Huawei, if your kids are on TikTok, if your population uses WeChat as a social media platform, the ability for China to have undue influence is, I think, a much greater challenge and a much more immediate threat than any kind of actual, armed conflict,&#8221; Warner said. &#8220;China having this kind of technology domination in a number of countries ought to scare the heck out of us because we’ve seen the kind of Orwellian surveillance state they&#8217;ve already created within China.&#8221;
Beijing requires companies and citizens by law to “support, assist and co-operate with the state intelligence work.”
In 2021, the Biden administration
The Biden administration is still trying to work out a deal to allow TikTok to operate in the U.S. but follow Trump’s demands that it seperate American users’ data and protect it from Chinese officials. Industry experts have expressed doubt that a workable deal can be reached.
&#8220;Unless they&#8217;re going to rebuild the system in the United States at great expense, sooner or later, when something goes wrong, there&#8217;s going to turn out to be only one engineer who knows how to fix it,” national security lawyer Stewart Baker <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-19/tiktok-security-deal-is-likely-to-leave-us-data-leaking-to-china?leadSource=uverify%20wall#xj4y7vzkg">told</a> Bloomberg. “And he or she is likely to be in China.”

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This week, President Joe Biden held an interview with a TikTok influencer named Dylan Mulvaney. Mulvaney is a man – a former Broadway star in The Book of Mormon – who less than a year ago decided that he was a woman. Ever since, he has made daily videos titled “Day X as a Girl.” These videos range from the stereotypical (on Day 1, Mulvaney announces, wearing drag, that he has cried three times) to the bizarrely cringe-inducing (on Day 120, Mulvaney analyzes his nipple size, which has increased from “cute little nipples” to “pepperoni nipples”). And they have earned Mulvaney in excess of 8.4 million followers, makeup deals from CeraVe, MAC, Neutrogena, and Kate Spade.
Mulvaney’s cosplaying as a woman also earned him an interview with the most powerful person on the planet. In that interview, Mulvaney asked Biden, “Do you think states should have the right to ban gender-affirming healthcare?” For those who are unaware of the medical euphemisms currently in practice, “gender-affirming healthcare” amounts to a slate of “treatments” including socially transitioning minor children, calling them by new names and pretending that they are members of the opposite sex; pumping minors full of cross-sex hormones and/or puberty blockers, with unknown long-term effects; progressing toward surgeries ranging from phalloplasties (fake penises attached to females) and mastectomies (removal of breasts) to vaginoplasties (removal of the penis and testes and creation of a fake vagina for males) to facial reconstruction surgeries.
Biden answered, “I don’t think any state or anybody should have the right [to restrict that]. As a moral question and as a legal question, I just think it’s wrong.”
As a moral question, the president of the United States told a man dressed as a woman and engaging in the most idiotic stereotypical behavior, it would be a deep wrong to deny life-altering treatments to confused minors.
How did we arrive at this point in American life? How did our country decline to the point that a geriatric dotard, representing the global hegemon, can declare it immoral to prevent genital mutilation of young people in the name of anti-scientific “gender theory”?
The answer is obvious: traditional values are losing.
They are losing because the best defense of tradition is tradition itself. And that defense has now been obliterated by a society dedicated to the proposition that tabula rasa quasi-intellectualism is a better policy-maker than tradition. To state that we ought to abide by effective and useful age-old traditions is no longer seen as enough; we have to come up with some sort of argument that fulfills the demands of Left-wing secular humanists. The burden of proof has been shifted from radicals who wish to tear down durable institutions – up to and including binary sex distinctions – to those who advocate for those institutions. Radicals need not explain how tearing down these institutions will create a better world. They need only criticize the existing arrangements as “intolerant” and “non-inclusive.”
This is a recipe for societal collapse. Experience and wisdom is our teacher; destroying those teachers in the name of tabula rasa pseudo-rationalism is disastrously foolish. As FA Hayek observed, “Experience comes to man in many more forms than are commonly recognized by the professional experimenter or the seeker after explicit knowledge &#8230; The appropriateness of our conduct is not necessarily dependent on our knowing why it is so.”
That’s not to say that there are no secular humanistic arguments against the insanity of gender theory – there are, and they are convincing, which is why even moderate liberals have turned against the most radical aspects of the Left-wing agenda. But the fact that social radicals have been able to push so far so fast is disturbing evidence that our entire traditional framework of thinking and acting has been undermined.
It must be restored. The burden of proof must be on those who wish to destroy, not on those who wish to maintain. This means that Americans must have confidence enough to say, “It’s worked before, and it works still. I will not surrender it simply because you demand that I do so.”

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Are we entirely positive that this Dylan Mulvaney fella isn&#8217;t some gigantic prank being played on both the Right and the Left?
Mulvaney, a grown adult man who identifies as a girl, recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-activist-dylan-mulvaney-teases-white-house-meeting-with-joe-biden-claims-president-has-watched-the-series-days-of-girlhood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scored an audience</a> with President Joe Biden to discuss issues facing American women.
The individual doesn&#8217;t identify as a woman because, according to the weirdo, Mulvaney never got to experience what it was like to be a girl growing up. So Mulvaney doesn&#8217;t just claim to be the opposite sex, but also a teenage female at that.
Mulvaney is ubiquitous across the web and apparently speaks for both women and gender-dysphoric men who believe they are women. None of it is normal.
A look at Mulvaney&#8217;s documented statements about what being a woman entails leaves one wondering if we&#8217;re not all victims of a well-orchestrated gag.
For example, Mulvaney&#8217;s first day as a &#8220;girl&#8221; led to the former star of the &#8220;Book of Mormon&#8221; national tour adopting stereotypical behaviors of women.
&#8220;Day one of being a girl and I have already cried three times, I wrote a scathing email that I did not send, I ordered dresses online that I couldn&#8217;t afford, and then when someone asked me how I was, I said, &#8216;I&#8217;m fine,&#8217; when I wasn&#8217;t fine. How&#8217;d I do, ladies?&#8221;
That sounds more like a Rodney Dangerfield joke that never made the cut than a serious person.
I can hear the comic legend now, &#8220;I told my wife I&#8217;m stressed and she said I need to be more like her &#8230; so I spent all our money on credit cards, started crying for no reason, and refused to discuss my emotions, then blamed her for not taking out the garbage. It&#8217;s tough being a broad!&#8221;
But that isn&#8217;t Dangerfield, it&#8217;s Mulvaney.
By day three, Mulvaney had <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzGT1WLwg4A" target="_blank" rel="noopener">officially</a> become a self-proclaimed &#8220;bimbo,&#8221; drank martinis, and tried on skimpy bikinis.
<iframe loading="lazy" title="DAY 3 of being a girl BIMBO EDITION @chrissychlapecka #trans #bimbo #woman" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tzGT1WLwg4A?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Down the line, a euphoric Mulvaney announced that the dude had purchased tampons — despite not having a vagina.
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Day 75- a trans take on tampons <a title="trans" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/trans?refer=embed">#trans</a>
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Then, the 25-year-old appeared in a video <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ulta-beauty-turns-off-comments-stands-by-offensive-transgender-video-that-triggered-boycott-calls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sponsored</a> by Ulta and expressed a desire to become a &#8220;mom.&#8221;
It is all entirely nonsensical.
Under any other circumstance, this behavior would be decried as bigoted and prejudiced.
Imagine if Mulvaney had actually donned blackface and then acted out gross stereotypes about African Americans while saying the n-word.
He would probably get the crap pummeled out of him and with good reason.
Instead, in the age of Wokeism, Mulvaney meets the president of the United States. The Left says you need to take Mulvaney seriously or you are a bigot.
At best, this is an entire joke that will be revealed down the road.
At worst — and more likely — the Left has taken one giant leap into insanity. Now, folks like Biden demand that Americans play along with their lunatic idea that objective truths — such as the fact that a man can never be a woman — no longer matter.
In that case, Mulvaney and this entire movement are more like the hit comedy show, &#8220;Whose Line Is It Anyway?&#8221; which billed itself as &#8220;the show where everything&#8217;s made up and the points don&#8217;t matter.&#8221;
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The official <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tiktok-responds-to-explosive-report-alleging-plans-to-track-locations-of-specific-americans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok</a> account for Scott Newgent’s organization TreVoices was banned from the platform after the activist and star of Matt Walsh’s “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What is a Woman?</a>” gave a powerful speech at Walsh’s “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walk-in-the-truth-walsh-urges-huge-crowd-to-reject-transgender-procedures-on-minors?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rally to End Child Mutilation</a>” Friday.
<a href="https://www.trevoices.org/scottnewgent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TreVoices</a> is a group that brings together anyone from transgender adults and those in the LGBTQ community to parents and religious leaders seeking to speak out against transgender treatment on children. Newgent appeared in Nashville outside the Tennessee State Capitol with Walsh, former Democrat Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, detransitioner Chloe Cole, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and others raising awareness about the dangers of transgender treatment for minors.
“My only objective with TreVoices is to transfer my passion and experience as a trans man, as a lesbian, double quoted on the rainbow. Encourage everyone to talk to your children, your parents, your sisters, your brothers, your cousins, your neighbors, your coworkers. I want to inspire people to have those difficult conversations when you might not agree with them,” Newgent said as leftist protesters shouted in the crowd.
&#8220;Within this debate, a bigot today is a hero tomorrow,” Newgent added. “My question is: are you willing to take the heat today to be a hero tomorrow to save a generation of children?&#8221;
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Newgent said TikTok suspended the account, with no reason given, just an hour after the speech concluded. An image of a message from TikTok reviewed by The Daily Wire simply said, “Your account was banned,” and then gave Newgent a chance to appeal if there is reason to believe it was a mistake. Newgent said the account gained 16,000 followers after opening on the platform three weeks ago.
Newgent expressed frustration to The Daily Wire, saying the ban “is so exhausting.”
“This is like running uphill with no legs! I have no support!&#8221; Newgent said.

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TikTok Bans Scott Newgent’s Organization Hour After Newgent Spoke At Matt Walsh’s ‘Rally To End Child Mutilation’

Scott Newgent's Organization Banned From TikTok After Newgent Spoke At Matt Walsh's 'Rally To End Child Mutilation'

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