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conceptions. So it's all just LOL now. So I'm having a great week just looking at all the stories about me that are just ridiculous. Rasmussen has a poll. Fifty-eight percent of people polled consider it important that a company shares their social and political values, including 28 percent who think it's very important. This feels like a big problem. Now even though most people, the vast majorit…
← Previous segment →ammering at you, hey be more woke or be more political or say something about climate change. What's the CEO going to do? Pretty much bow to the pressure, right? But what if the CEO had backing, a law, and the law said you can't speak out as a company on a political item. You can speak out personally, of course, but companies can't have opinions. How about that? Companies can't have political opinions. They can do what they want to do and the individuals can have any opinions they want. How about that?
And how about at the same time we say you can't be fired for your political opinion. How about that? Can't be fired for your political opinion even if you say something on social media that the company doesn't like. Yeah, I feel like there are a few tweaks we could make to account for the fact that social media changed the balance of power. Because I think the regular media had some balance with business, but social media is the wild west and now it's just forcing business to respond to basically the randomness of social media. That can't be good in the long run.
Anyway, I don't have the best idea for fixing that, but something needs to be done. Here's what I don't like to say. We should have a national conversation about that. I hate hearing that because I'm actually criticizing myself at the moment for bringing up something I didn't have a better idea for. Like probably shouldn't do that. I mean I'm just throwing out that constitutional amendment thing, but even I don't think that's necessarily a good idea. Just putting it out there.
All right, let's talk about, are you aware that China built a technology and it's got a user interface where China can control the minds of Americans actually through the interface? Did you know that? How many of you knew that? There's actually a user interface that China can control the minds of Americans. Like literally, no joke, that's a real thing. How many of you knew that? Yeah, it's called TikTok. And people think it's something else.
Now here's the thing. Why is it that Congress has not acted on TikTok? Because if you said to them, do you know that the Chinese government, literally not hyperbolically, actually literally has built a tool that they can tweak very easily with the user interface to change the minds of Americans, to change our minds on important political things? Now nobody doubts that social media can do that, right? Is there anybody who says social media doesn't change anybody's mind? No, everybody knows that.
Everybody knows that China controls TikTok. And now we know from an article in Forbes that TikTok literally has a button that any employee, I guess some employees, can touch. It's called the heat button. They touch one button and they can make any content on TikTok go viral. They can make it go viral with one button.
Now let me ask you this. I don't use TikTok. Is there anybody here who uses TikTok? Must be some of you, bunch of you use TikTok. All right. So for the not very many of you, actually that's good. But for those who do, let me ask this question. Have you seen a lot of anti-fentanyl content on TikTok? You know, a lot of content about the overdoses and the number of people dying and specifically where it's coming from. Have you seen that? Is TikTok just full of the biggest issue for young people? Because TikTok skews younger, right? Younger. And what is the number one cause of death for young people? It's actually drug overdose and guns. But uh, oh well actually that's a good comparison.
I'm assuming that since the two biggest problems for young people death-wise would be guns, an issue that the left likes, and then fentanyl. Right? So those of you who use TikTok, if you want to wonder hey is this TikTok already being weaponized against Americans, it would be easy to check. All you'd have to do is see is there more viral content about mass shootings and how guns should be banned, and does it roughly match the anti-fentanyl information, especially mentioning that it comes from China. All right. So you could easily check.
Why is somebody saying not guns? I don't know what not guns means. They must have plenty of content that's anti-gun. Am I wrong? Does TikTok have anti-gun content or not? I'm just assuming that it leans left on that topic. Am I wrong? Give me a fact check on that. I guess there's not enough TikTok users on here to fact check me as I go. But it's easy to check, right?
Now why would Congress ignore this? Do you think China would ignore it if we built a user interface to control their youth and that was working? It totally works. Nobody's questioning whether it works. I don't think they would ignore it. That's why the young people in China can't use TikTok. They have a different version in China that's a safe version.
So it's possible that Congress isn't doing nothing because they're all bought off. But there's another possibility. Congress is too old to understand the topic. Congress is too old to understand the topic. That's my current thinking. And I'll be a little more specific. If you had never been on TikTok or
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you'd never used, let's say, Instagram, and most of them probably have somebody else send a tweet and maybe they know a little Twitter, maybe they got some Facebook going on, but they're not really social media consumers so much. They're more like producers, not consumers. Now if you're a consumer and you've done what I did, which is you pick up Instagram, you say oh I wonder if there's any good…
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