On tick tock and I I believe it’s a public threat I believe it’s a national security threat I believe the long-term implications of it are a major threat and right now the federal government they’re looking to possibly ban tick tock under any normal circumstance I would very much support this but the
Bill is deeply concerning the bill is like Patriot Act part two the bill would give the federal government massive almost total control over the Internet over computers over your you know modems your Lan local area network over satellites over Quantum Computing over AI it is sweeping it includes almost everything involving computers
And it would give them control over it I mean I I found this shocking because I was generally supportive of this bill at first um I thought this was going to be a very good thing and I believed I believe the discussion on it is good I believe in
Banning Tick Tock by the way I very much support the idea of banning tick tock but the way this is Being Framed is horrifying to put it bluntly let me show you Epoch times had this story they say further in Tick Tock is the most popular social media in the United States and
Not just for messaging and videos it’s growing into a global super app which you which users will be able to use to you for e-commerce peer-to-peer networking gaming Finance and anything else developers dream up that users can be convinced that they need in other words it’s like it’s like
A One-Stop Shop videos entertainment social networking communication like instant messaging buying products Finance it’s everything everything in your life can be done through Tick Tock at least that’s the goal of it right what’s the problem with that the problem is who controls that market and how do they manipulate their control
Of that market in this case the Chinese Communist party is the big concern because they’re saying is Tick tock’s powerful algorithm extracts personal data from what users reveal including what they watch and anything the app’s AI algorithms can gleam such as from third-party websites everything you visit basic well everything that can reach
The main objection to tick tock is that it could be used by the Chinese Communist Party against democracy given beijing’s demonstration demonstrated opposition to the United States and all we stand for allowing its influence to grow through Tick Tock is arguably an existential threat to U.S national
Security and I would agree with that especially imagine if the CCP controls Finance the c-speed controls your private Communications the CCP controls the entertainment you’re shown it controls your you know what you buy on marketplaces and including what you cannot buy and what you cannot see it says with 150 million users Banning
The app would be politically difficult indeed Tick Tock paid for travel for dozens of influencers with a total of 60 million followers to give a news conference in Washington on March 22nd according to wired that’s in addition to the 10 million dollars the company paid for lobbyists in the past two years
This is a Chinese company lobbying the American government folks although you could argue Tick Tock has us-based offices or whatever three Democratic lawmakers and a PR firm joined them as well it says further in the Biden Administration is looking for a solution and is threatening to ban the app unless China sells it
Now let me show you something interesting something a lot of people forget about Tick Tock is under the Chinese company bite dance and does anybody remember the self-criticism letter the CEO of bite dance wrote where the CEO of bite dance talked about his promise to the Chinese
Communist party to use his products to serve the interests of the Communist Party does everyone remember that what’s really wild folks what’s really wild about that public criticism letter is I was looking for it online and I think it’s been scrubbed from the internet I can’t find it
The most I could find was articles talking about it and even that took me a long long time because I remember writing about this when it first came out this is the best I could find I wrote about it I need to go find my old
Reporting on it but it doesn’t show up on Google I could I couldn’t even Google this folks but it says foreign policy 2019 2019 bite dance parent company of tick tock can’t outrun beijing’s shadow it says further and Tick Tock became the most downloaded app the United States
Has passed fall bite dance CEOs likely is a hedge likely is a hedge against regulatory actions restricting growth in China has set a goal of 50 50 percent foreign user base by 2020 a big part of its 75 billion dollar valuation prices is the fact that unlike say 10
Cent which is also Chinese company WeChat it has proven to be able to deliver abroad but with its success globally comes the same tension points other consumer-facing tech companies have encounters further in quote the same exact attention the complaints people have with Facebook they’re going to have with bite dance said Tech nodes
John artman honest China Tech Talk podcast for instance it’s international news apps have faced pushback in India for publishing racist fake news in the lead-up to an election and it even faced a suspension of an app in Indonesia for a pornography inappropriate content and blasphemy further in it states this important
Bite dance has already been repeatedly forced to bend the knee to party Authority at home the CCP folks most punishingly in April of 2018 the government the Chinese Communist Party compelled bite dance to shut down its popular inside Jokes app for its due to for good due to vulgar content
And in response Zhang the head of bite dance did this the head of bite dance the parent company of tick tock issued a letter of self-criticism where he said among many other things quote our product took the wrong path and content appeared that was in in commensurate with socialist core values
He also promised that the firm would in the future quote and this is exactly from him in his public letter quote that it would further deepen cooperation with authoritative official Party media elevating distribution of authoritative media content ensuring That official Party media voices are broadcast to strength
And what’s crazy folks is I can’t find the original letter I think it’s been scrubbed um it doesn’t show up on Google I wrote about it back when it first came out but I’ll work on finding that for you all the head of bite dance in other words
The head of which runs Twitter or runs Tick Tock I mean wrote a public statement promising that his applications and his work will serve the interest of the Chinese Communist Party promote the Chinese Communist party’s mouthpieces and promote what they call socialist core values and their own statements they have vowed
To support the Chinese Communist party and its agendas on the information front you get that now that being said with this Tick Tock ban I I support Banning Tick Tock personally my my opinion I support Banning Tick Tock I think it’s a public safety threat I
Think that right now it’s not being used in the way that it could be used for the down the road but I think it is a long-term serious threat to every Free Nation because of the Chinese Communist Party can build a monopoly a platform that is where you buy products where you
Communicate where you get your news uh if they can and even your financial information or payments if the CCP controls that platform they control what you see they control what you say they control what news you absorb they control the websites you possibly visit they control your finances and they control your Communications
Aside from being a national security threat that could be used for censorship that can be used for political manipulation we know Based on data for example how much Facebook is able to sway elections based on information people are exposed to and the way that’s being used imagine if the Chinese
Communist party controlled that now that being said I do not support the current bill Banning Tick Tock and this is why because it’s not just a tick tock ban the current bill to ban Tick Tock is a I’d say hidden package that would hand massive government control over almost everything information and technology
Related this is the Patriot Act on steroids this is this is like total government control over information technology let me show you Greg price had a great analysis on he says the build band Tick Tock is absolutely terrifying it gives the government the ability to go after
Anyone they deem as a national security risk at which point they can have access to everything this is the actual bill the secretary in consultation with the relevant executive department and agency heads is authorized to and shall take action to identify deter disrupt prevent prohibit investigate or otherwise mitigate including by negotiating
Entering into or imposing enforcing any mitigation measure to address any risk arising from any covered transaction by any person or with respect to any property subject to the jurisdiction of the United States you’re getting how broad this is how incredibly broad this is and the incredible Powers this would give them
And let me show you a list of what this includes the other three documents on the list by the way this includes desktop applications mobile apps games payment applications web-based applications communication technology AI machine learning Wireless area networks that’s your Lan mobile networks satellites cable Wireless Systems Quantum systems biotechs robot biotech robotics
Etc etc etc going into very like Frontier and Fringe technology this is everything if it is digital this includes it this is everything and Greg price continues stating this believe it or not it gets even worse if you are found in violation they can put you in jail for 20 years
2-0 20 years find you one million dollars and seize your property they can also deem any foreign government and adversary without informing Congress and everything they do is not subject to foia Freedom of Information requests meaning there’s no transparency I as a journalist could not request data on it because it’s not
Subject to foia there’s no oversight no accountability he says further Reign if this was about banning Tick-Tock they would pass a bill that simply bans tick tock but the UNA party he calls it is trying to create the same system of domestic spying they did after 9 11 for the
Internet but on steroids this is terrifying um frankly this is this is what they’re proposing underneath the tick tock ban this is not a tick tock band folks this is a control everything digital policy and one that could go after us in I mean 20 years in prison one million dollars
This is if like you’re they believe you’re promoting anything of a foreign group but remember folks they claim Trump was spreading Russian disinformation for like seven years they claimed Trump was colluding with Russia and spreading Russian disinformation imagine if they threw Trump in prison for 20 years because
They made a fake accusation because they falsified data which is what they did imagine if they threw Trump in 20 years for 20 in prison for 20 years he was using that fake narrative which is what this would allow them to possibly do you getting that
