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it. But there are two possibilities out there. The Perplexity app, which is an AI app and a search engine. It's the best thing ever. I recommend it all the time. Jeff Bezos is one of the backers of that and they've offered to somehow merge with TikTok but not take the algorithm. So some think the algorithm is the expensive part and so they would pay less. They'd build the algorithm themselves. I d…
← Previous segment →not so much that there was one particular issue about Israel and the propaganda on that. So I don't know what is up with Rand Paul. Why doesn't he just say it? Or does he not know? Is it possible he doesn't know that the real risk is future persuasion? You just don't know.
And why would you equate a free speech platform that could be manipulated by your adversary with a free speech platform that could be manipulated potentially by your own country? How in the world does anybody think that's about the same? Let me give you an analogy. Would you hand a gun to your friend before you would hand a gun to your enemy? Which one makes sense to you? It's the same gun. Why would you treat it differently? People don't censor it. It's the same thing. It's the same exact thing, a gun. So why would you discriminate who you gave it to? An enemy who wants to shoot you versus your friend who wants to protect you. Why is it different? I don't see any difference. To you I'm Rand Paul. I don't see any difference. Well it's a gun both times, right? I don't get it. So what's up with that?
Now to be fair, when he says it's censorship he's probably talking about the specific Israeli situation. But is he
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using censorship as influence and he didn't think that the influence should be canceled? I don't know. If it was organic then it's a free speech issue. So maybe that's the way to put it. If the thing it got canceled for was actually just happening on its own and China didn't push any buttons, it was just a natural phenomenon of what the TikTokers thought because they're a certain age and then belo…
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