Back to episode — Episode 2412 CWSA 03/13/24
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n from DEI. Now the first thing you're going to say is Scott, DEI is not just about the Black public. You know DEI is about any groups that are not getting a fair shake in society. No that's not true. I'm sorry if somebody told you that. If you took the Black population out of the DEI conversation the whole thing falls apart. Do you think that you could get the women and the gays and the Hispanic…
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Now it's written so broadly that it couldn't possibly be something you want to associate with. So yesterday I started the process to get a dedicated machine just for TikTok. So I don't plan to look at content because that would be crazy because I don't want to get hypnotized. But I am going to post on it because it's not going away and I'm going to post on it with a dedicated separate machine that's not in any way connected to anything else. And I'm definitely not going to use a password that's used on any other device. I wouldn't even do that.
US Intel, the Director of National Intelligence, DNI, says that China uses TikTok to impact US elections. He says quote we cannot rule out that the CCP would use it. It is extraordinary the degree to which China are developing frameworks for collecting foreign data and their capacity to turn around and use it to target audiences. I guess TikTok accounts run by a Chinese government propaganda arm somehow we can tell who they are targeted candidates from both political parties during the midterms in 2022.
So that's our own intelligence people say that China did use bots I guess on TikTok. Now what they don't say is that they know that TikTok has you know pushed the heat button but if they had bots and we know they were bots it means that TikTok knew they were bots and didn't get rid of them or didn't get rid of them fast enough.
All right so let's talk about this bill, this TikTok bill to ban it. So the first thing you need to know is that TikTok is not going to be banned. And part of the reason is the bill was written it looks like it was written intentionally not to be passed because it would give the ability for the government. Well here here's the setup. Tucker Carlson gives us the whole setup. He posted today in a classified briefing this afternoon, must have been yesterday, attended by officials from the Biden Justice Department. AOC claimed that Elon committed quote election interference in 2022 by quote changing the algorithms on X to alter the results of the midterms.
Now all he really did was get rid of the bias so she's saying that getting rid of the bias altered the midterms and that election interference.
Now suppose you took that to be true. Suppose you said well that's a reasonable opinion AOC totally reasonable that if somebody changed something on their platform and it affected the race well that must be election interference. Did you know that the TikTok ban if passed would allow the government to force the sale of any social media platform that interferes in elections?
So all they would have to do to take X from Musk is to make the claim, the claim that he's interfering with elections. I don't even think they have to prove it in a court of law. It looks like it's just an opinion. Who in the world's going to sign that thing? Do you think you can find enough people to sign this? They would basically say that the government can take your social media platform away if the government says you're interfering with the election.
Now don't you think there was a way to make this only about TikTok or only about companies owned by adversaries? I'm pretty sure they could have walled that off. Don't you think? You don't think they could have walled that off and said let's make this only apply to something controlled by a foreign adversary? Pretty easy to do.
I do not believe that our constitution bars us from blocking adversaries from doing business in the United States. I don't think any freedoms apply to the Chinese government. So how did they get 50 bipartisan people to sign it? Do you know how you get 50 people to support a bill and this is bipartisan both sides 100% of the people in the committee? Do you know how you get that to happen? You write some legislation that nobody's ever going to approve. Pretty easy to say yes to something that nobody's going to sign, isn't it?
This is so not signable there's no chance it's going to happen. And there are 35 billion other reasons it's not going to happen which is a specific gigantic donor to the Republican Party who's got $35 billion some say of value in TikTok ownership. And that's enough money to make t
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he government do anything he wants. You know that right? That's enough money to make the government do anything you want. So he just has to want it and of course he does. Nobody wants to lose $35 billion. So yeah there's no chance that the government is stronger than $35 billion all focused in one place. Well or let's say a billion dollars because he could burn a billion dollars just to get what h…
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