complete sense always. But that's a bad way to start an opinion.

Let's see what else he says. So he says it's not true that the claim that the data can't be secured because the algorithm in China. Here's the truth he says. The truth is the algorithm runs in the US in Oracle Cloud where they're reviewing the code not China. So in other words Oracle is the only one that sees the algorithm that runs in the United States.

Do you care what server the algorithm runs on? How was that ever part of the argument? I don't care where it runs. I care what it does. Do you think that there's an entity in Oracle that understands the algorithm? So are you telling me that if somebody at ByteDance or TikTok pushes the heat button, literally it's called the heat button to boost the signal of something, do you think that somebody over in Oracle is going to be there? They'll be doing their work. It's like ding ding ding ding hold on somebody over in China pushed the heat button and that signal came over to our server that's over in Oracle and the alert is telling me that something happened? No because the code would be working the way it was written. It'd be working fine. It wouldn't be anything that they would see.

Do you think that the people in Oracle can see persuasion as it's embedded in the let's say the outcome of the product? No because you can't find persuasion if it's done right. You can't find it. So this is an absurd argument.

And then he says maybe should examine the facts. And then he says they want to ban TikTok because it's owned by China. And Rand Paul says TikTok is not owned by China. Here's what Rand Paul says. He says 60% of the company is owned by US and international investors. 20% is owned by the company founders. 20% is owned by company employees including 7,000 Americans. And the CEO of TikTok is from Singapore not China.

So then Rand Paul says so ask yourself why they keep repeating this lie to scare you. So the lie is that technically China doesn't own it. That's what Rand Paul is arguing. That technically they don't own it. The only thing that they have is the ability to tell the people who do own it exactly what to do or their business will go away.

Do you think Rand Paul is unaware that the government of China can tell TikTok what to do and TikTok's damn well going to do it because the penalty would be far too big? Do you think he doesn't know that? Of course he knows that. Everybody knows it. So he's going to argue like a lawyer instead of an ophthalmologist. He's going to turn into a lawyer and argue the technical details of who the ownership is when the Chinese government can tell it what it wants it to do and has to do it.

Do you really think that this argument is what he actually believes? I can't read minds but let's just say it's a little bit inconsistent with the hyper rational person we've known for years. So whatever is going on here has nothing to do with these arguments because these are stupid and he knows it. It's the he knows it part that bugs me right. If I thought he didn't know what he was doing it wouldn't bother me at all but he knows. He knows.

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