s to measure such things. So in other words maybe you could measure the outcome of something. Maybe there would be a way to measure poll results and opinions before and after somebody's involvement. So I don't know how it could be done, but I suspect it could be done.

Somebody says, lol, are you referring to yourself? Yes, yes of course. Now if you're new to this Periscope you're not aware that I'm a trained hypnotist. I say it way too often. And I write on the topic of persuasion. So being a trained hypnotist and a professional communicator who specializes in influence as a sort of a subspecialty, wouldn't you expect me to be more persuasive than the average person? Of course, because practice works. If somebody plays the piano more than somebody else, the person who practiced the most, all other things being roughly equal, is going to be a better piano player. So there are very few skills that are not influenced by practice.

So since I practice and study the field you would expect I'd be more influential. So shutting me down, in theory, if I had an opinion that you didn't want to spread, in theory shutting me down would be more important than shutting someone else down who was more of a consumer, less of a creator, and more of a consumer.

All right, somebody said there's a COVID tracker that will blow your mind at COVID tracker. I can't speak to that, but apparently somebody in comments says it will blow your mind, probably scare you.

All right, so I'm glad that our government is after that TikTok app. I think that is exactly the right play. They're studying it. But the thing they should study is that it gives the government of China the ability to change your Twitter account. That should be all you need to know. Would there be anything else you would need to know to ban TikTok, right? Shouldn't that be enough?

If the only thing you know is that it's a Chinese company, the Chinese government of course can get any data it wants from a Chinese company. We think we'd all agree that's just true. And that they can, if they can change your Twitter account without telling you. Those are all true, right? Did I say anything that's not objectively easily true? I don't think so.

So if the government of China is controlling our most important asset for election integrity, which is social media, how do you let the TikTok app continue to be available in America or any other app that does the same thing, that also as a foreign government that can control it? I think that's a no-brainer. I think you have to shut down that app. Sorry to all the people who like it, but there's no way you can let the government of China control your American Twitter accounts. And that's exactly what's happening.

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