To the Editor:
Re “Elevating Stakes, Home Passes a TikTok Invoice” (entrance web page, March 14):
The invoice handed by the Home of Representatives would require TikTok’s Chinese language guardian firm, ByteDance, to promote the platform to an American firm with the intention to proceed working in the USA.
We perceive that TikTok has impressed pleasure and creativity for thousands and thousands of customers. However we additionally know that the Chinese language Communist Social gathering has used comparable know-how prior to now to steal delicate data and make Individuals much less secure.
We merely can not permit leisure software program — regardless of how enjoyable and interesting it could be — to compromise our nationwide safety. Due to this fact I assist this invoice and encourage ByteDance to divest, in order that Individuals can proceed to take pleasure in TikTok with peace of thoughts.
Paul Bacon
Hallandale Seashore, Fla.
To the Editor:
Re “TikTok Creators Journey to D.C. to Battle a Ban” (Enterprise, March 15):
TikTok creators descended on Washington to struggle for an app they declare modifications lives. For them and a really choose few this may be true, however what about most individuals who use the platform?
Children spend hours glued to a display whereas quick clips of their friends dwelling it up, a few of them making thousands and thousands doing it, are fed to them. This can’t be good for his or her psychological well being, and China’s limits on the app’s use by its personal youngsters confirms it.
I’m not an out-of-touch boomer attempting to ban it, as one of many creators you interviewed stated of these pushing for the invoice. I’ve been freaking out about turning 30, and I perceive how TikTok works. I simply don’t assume it’s a web constructive, particularly for creating brains.
Ann Grace Evans
Raleigh, N.C.
To the Editor:
Re “What Trump’s TikTok Flip-Flop Tells America” (column, March 18):
David French rightly factors out Donald Trump’s incoherent and inconsistent overseas coverage on the subject of the query of banning TikTok. However he and nearly each commentator on the topic fail to say the rationale for Mr. Trump’s unique opposition to the app. It was solely after a bunch of Ok-pop followers on the app embarrassed him by reserving 1000’s of seats for no-shows at a Tulsa rally almost 4 years in the past that he prompt banning the app.
Mr. French is right to look at the transactional nature of Mr. Trump’s change of coronary heart. But it surely suggests his sea change began from a principled coverage place, somewhat than — as is all the time the case — petty grievances and score-settling.
Chris Bowers
Brooklyn
To the Editor:
China has banned Fb, Google and WhatsApp amongst many different apps and web sites that convey out inconvenient truths they might somewhat hold their nation unaware of. It’s lengthy overdue that we perceive its method and easily give it a dose of its personal medication.
To the Editor:
Re “Trump Condemns Jews Backing Democrats” (information article, March 20), in regards to the former president’s assertion that they “hate Israel” and “their faith”:
There may be an American someplace whose lecture to me about my Judaism can be much less grating than Donald Trump’s, however I can’t consider one.
My votes for Democrats this yr received’t come as a result of I hate my faith or I hate Israel. I really like each. My vote towards Mr. Trump and the Republicans will come about as a result of I really like America and our almost 250-year-old democracy, and I don’t consider that Mr. Trump and his followers really feel the identical.
When the votes are counted in November, I’ll settle for the end result. If Donald Trump and his followers would do the identical, we’d all be higher off. Till then, cease telling the Jewish individuals how we must always really feel or vote. We’ll be higher off considering for ourselves.
Elliott Miller
Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
Meddling within the Different Social gathering’s Main
To the Editor:
Re “Democrats Are Meddling in Republican Primaries,” by Lisa Lerer (On Politics e-newsletter, nytimes.com, March 18):
Ms. Lerer accurately noticed that the Democratic marketing campaign tactic of meddling in Republican primaries might danger undercutting President Biden’s overarching marketing campaign message about “the menace to democracy” as of late.
Ms. Lerer identified {that a} Democratic group not too long ago spent $2.7 million on an advert “boosting” the Republican Senate main candidate Bernie Moreno as “a MAGA Republican” who’s “too conservative for Ohio.”
Certain sufficient, on Tuesday Mr. Moreno received the Ohio main by greater than 15 proportion factors over the runner-up, Matt Dolan, a extra reasonable candidate who supposedly would have been a more durable opponent for Senator Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, to beat within the November normal election.
The cynical incentive for one celebration to meddle in one other celebration’s main might maybe be diminished with ranked-choice voting.
That’s as a result of empowering voters to rank their most popular candidates — as a substitute of voting for only one candidate — might make the election end result more durable to foretell and thus more durable to recreation by boosting.
And maybe there can be one much less “menace to democracy” to fret about.
Bob Ryan
San Francisco
Children Promoting Sweet on the Subway in New York
To the Editor:
Re “Officers Shrug as Youths Miss Faculty to Work” (entrance web page, March 14):
I urge New Yorkers to not name youngsters’s providers or the police on households promoting sweet within the subway.
Let’s be clear: Kids ought to be in class. However youngsters also needs to have sufficient to eat. They’re promoting sweet to assist their households pay for requirements comparable to meals, clothes and shelter.
New York does have an answer to migrant youngsters who promote sweet on the subway: Dozens of charities and mutual assist teams, lots of which obtain authorities funding, enroll youngsters in class, distribute meals and join adults to work. The New York Neighborhood Belief has funded these efforts for many years.
Mother and father are in one of the best place to determine find out how to stability the wants of their households. Once they need assistance, nonprofits — somewhat than the police or the kid welfare system — are one of the best place to show.
Eve A. Stotland
Queens
The author is senior program officer, schooling and human justice, on the New York Neighborhood Belief.
To the Editor:
For the previous couple of months, each time I’m on the thirty fourth Avenue-Herald Sq. subway station, I’ve encountered youngsters promoting sweet — on the steps, within the station and on the trains. That New York Metropolis’s little one welfare company has not gotten extra immediately concerned is near negligence.
I’ve seen toddlers enjoying at their moms’ toes on the station platform, simply 5 to 6 toes from the tracks. Merely put, is it going to take a toddler getting killed for Mayor Eric Adams to get up and ship the correct authorities into the stations to safeguard these youngsters?
One other query: How is it correct for an toddler, toddler or little one to be in a subway station all day with the fixed noise and congestion? To me, that, along with the purposeful absenteeism from faculties, is little one abuse.
Aaron Isquith
Brooklyn
