South Dakota Republican Governor. Kristi Noem spoke out after she enacted an executive order that prohibits state agencies and those who contract with them access to the China-owned social networking app TikTok. This was in response to the Chinese Communist Party’s attempts at stealing information from its users.

It’s now off our networks. It has been blocked from our servers. Noem stated that any state employee or contractor with South Dakota will no longer be able download or use this app due to the national security risk.

She stated that accessing the app would be a crime and TikTok is a threat to South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore State as well as the personal data of all South Dakotans and, by extension, Americans.

Noem suggested that the reporting of pre-Musk Twitter manipulating algorithm to advance a political narrative or quash other narratives is a small version of what China does using its TikTok.

It’s even worse. They are our enemy. They hate us. They hate us.

Notably, the Democratic Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee gave credit to Donald Trump, a former Republican President, for correctly raising the alarm about TikTok’s potential use by the Chinese government to harm America.

Donald Trump is right. “I mean, TikTok represents an immense threat,” Virginia Senator Mark R. Warner stated earlier in the month.

Noem seemed to agree with Trump and Warner, saying Fox News that her state does not want any part in intelligence gathering by global adversaries and, thereby, TikTok.

According to the governor, TikTok users can be tracked by tracking their cellphone button presses. Passwords can also be lifted. Additionally, more malicious behavior against U.S citizens can be perpetrated.

“[The CCP] wants to collect information about us because we hate them, and they have an agenda to destroy America. We know that China is a threat for many decades. They have manipulated their currency and stolen our IP. They have also built up their military, threatened our allies, and attacked them. She said that they know their plans.”

Noem said later that she plans to address Chinese land purchases in the United States. This includes buying up farmland and preventing spying activities from potentially occurring from cases such as the Chinese land purchase in North Dakota, near a sensitive U.S. military base.

“By buying land, they are gaining more and more control over our lives.” Noem stated that South Dakota has a law prohibiting foreign entities from purchasing land.

“We’re going back to that in January though, but in our legislative session because I don’t believe we should give them any land or long-term leases due to the threat that they face.

Noem concluded that President Biden was “AWOL” on both sides.