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And even Search Engine google, or purposefully censoring conservatives. And conservative media outlets. Is that in fact, what google is doing, which is censoring and moderating speech on his platform. So i would not say that we are censoring speech, our platform. There were rounds of hearings, questions, and appearances by elected republicans reinstating these charges, saying not only did a big tech have the power to silence voices they disagreed with. But they also had the power to call it a persons feed to show only news, which was aligned with their own political agendas. You know, democrats sharply repute discharge and said, republicans were just continuing their history of bashing what they consider to be the liberal, Mainstream Media and big tech, well, ignoring the real dangers, which was the rise of hate speech and this information online. But in the eyes of the majority of americans, this made republicans, the party fighting to protect freedom of speech. So as fast for to 2024 and 2 things have changed. First, one of the largest social media platforms, twitter was sold to libertarian tech giant lawn mosque, who almost immediately changed the name to x and promise to fight for free speech and oppose the woke mind virus. Now the 2nd change came in the development and almost instantly Popular Online social media outlet originating from china, called tick tock and is continuing to dominate the sector. Which of course does not make some of its american competitors. Very happy to these competitors, having a very generous lobbyist in washington dc. Lets look at this meta, which is the owner of the popular platforms, facebook and instagram, and in the 1st half of 2023, spend about 9000000. 00 on lobby activities. Now the previous year, the companys lobby effort, total approximately 21000000. 00. Now initially thought the calling for this banning of tick tock, which has taken a very large amount of traffic away from the meta platforms, was mainly about an American Company using the government to eliminate a for a competitor. And it still could be the case as chip talkers ultimately owned through a very complex, multi layered Corporate Structure by dance, who was a privately own technology giant. However, former congressman ron paul has correctly stated the us house vote to force the self tick, tock or band the platform entirely from us. Is it most dangerous . An anti american acts . Is the passage of the patriot act. Why is all this . Well, because the law will give the us president whomever that is Sole Authority to determine which businesses can and cannot operate in the united states. This is a full government take over a basic liberties and was being done under the umbrella of protecting American Security is accomplishing the exact opposite and even more alarm alarming. The same republican party, which championed free speech just a few short years ago, is largely the one pushing for this band. The majority of democrats have either been supportive of the band or basically stay quiet. However, there were a few voices on both sides of the aisle, who found themselves vocalizing their disagreement of this man. New or democrat, representative alexandria across your cortez voted against the band, saying there are serious anti trust and privacy questions here. And any National Security concerns should be laid out to the public prior to a vote. Almost voice in the same opposition to the band was a public and representatives at marjorie taylor. Greene from georgia, and representative Thomas Massey from kentucky. Even the republican candidate for President Donald Trump publicly stated his disagreement with a band saying there are a lot of people on tick tock that love it. There are a lot of young kids on tick tock, who will go crazy without it all present. Joe biden himself has not said anything, the bite in harris headquarters on tick tock has more the 265000 followers and is very active. So what is the real reasoning behind this by person support of House Resolution 75 to one . Lets discuss with our guest angela mccardle, chair of the Libertarian National committee. Larry ward present Political Media Inc, and jims read well, the political commentator and a comedian, thanks for joining me. Well, lets start with you, james. Do you believe that those and congress who support this bill are really doing so out of concern for american say, security and safety . And i know the short answer is no. I mean, its kind of a silly notion to think that the Us Governments actually interested in data privacy concerns. I mean, just look at the Tech Industry based on the us from google to meta twitter slash ex. Um, you know, these are very integrated with the National Security state. They Sell Technology um and our use for surveillance purposes. Um, so the idea that you know, the Us Government is actually concerned about any sort of National Security threats that tick tock poses. I mean, they could levy those criticisms towards us based companies, but you know, they dont really, um, you know, part for maybe like some republicans back in the day under the trump administration. Um, but you know, is for different reasons. Right. Right. So yeah its, its another our criticisms and make about tick tock, but its a bit of a witch on well, it is a website even though you have every congressman up there screaming or not every but most of them say theres about security. So larry, i have to ask you, what do you feel like is the real reason that the us congress is taking all this type of position on the tick tock platform the right after weve gone through a couple of years the censorship. And thats exactly the reason they are not concerned at all with um, you know, with, like you said, with security, this is not about china. This is about getting control of a kind of a company that, you know, quite frankly, they deem it appropriate. But it was just Like Operation shop point, what operations your point during the obama nutrition came out. They said were going to target unsavory business. And the bank from that was pretty much the whole idea of operation from ford. And it was, it was uh, guns, it was poor and it was uh, you know, drugs and, you know, really all they focused on were guns and it kept getting slipped more slippery and more slippery, more slippery. So thats, thats essentially whats happening now. If you look at who is advocating for this bill, its ben crenshaw, its a security and security republicans or democrats. Its a video cause its on the other side. You have wrong, paula. Ripple, i will align my uh, my, my light house with rand paul. And ron paul, any day and, and, and uh, you know, those, those kind of guides rather than the dang credits also in the world. Was interesting that youre bringing that up because that brings in the libertarian point of view. So ive got to ask you angela. Normally, libertarians pretty much side with republicans on issues except in this case. Why do you see that republicans in congress are so supportive of this bill . Do you think it has anything to do with the billions being poured in by the outside part, other social media platforms . I think normally, libertarians was um we side with a few republicans like like rand paul and Thomas Massey. Im not sure if this has an, im not sure how much this has to do with, with billions being poured in. But i think its interesting that this would come after you one must rights to ship at twitter. S. And its our, its our government was that concerned with chinese influence when maybe march and may be looking at people in china who purchase massive amounts of land farming the, the farming industry, things of that nature. The whole thing just seems kind of like a ours was this thing you mentioned the 1st time i go back to you james, because im just gonna point out. You look a little bit young. I think this is something that a lot of have left a lot of young voters kind of scratching their head going of all the things right now that you could be targeting congress that you could be working on. Youre going after the, one of the most popular social media platforms with our age group. So do you think right now that cars is just basically once again, showing theyre out of touch with either constituency is or their future constituency . Yeah, i mean uh, any time uh, you know, theyve got some tech ceos doing some sort of hearing. I mean, they, they, Congress Really shows how little they know and how loop they are with how these things work. I mean, the ridiculous question asking when they could actually, you know, have a Good Opportunity the grill, these guys are legitimate questions. I ask them about like if it connects to the wi fi and you know, insisting that the seo tick tock is chinese asking how it like the ad revenue models are like how they earn revenue um to soccer bird when hes on the stand. Um, so yeah, i mean its, its especially ridiculous when you look at the deteriorating material conditions of americans. I mean, we got like, you know, groceries, food spikes, price spikes that are, you know, hitting a 30 year high. But for some reason, tick tock seems to be the thing that has bi partisan support banning it. That is. So yeah, its a little ridiculous. Well thats the thing. And what . Because they did say that if tick tock was to sell everything and become a 100 percent american, that congress will allow it to continue. Do you actually believe that or do you think the damage is already done to take talk as well . I dont know how much damage has already been done, but im sure that theres going to be if, if they want to force all the attorney shareholders to sell and have it purchased by american interest. I imagine that what they want is for that to be purchased by, by the government. They would love a new propaganda out, im sure. And so theyre like, oh, is there chinese propaganda on here . Well, it should be american propaganda. Its, its totally alignment with what they do through the 3. And i say what we know that they did through twitter was a twitter files and what were all pretty sure they do in facebook. Whats interesting is, and what you did bring up the idea of you on most of that kind of broad, another probably conversations even though it was never kind of like the elephant in the room amongst the congressional hearings that was going on. Larry are used to suspect that this is actually more about not to sell even during the chinese out because theyre not getting rid of the chinese in any other parts of american life. But more of a target to eat on most something that someone who has made it quite obvious. You cant be controlled by the government. A 100 percent. That is exactly what its about. And, and look, i actually think that theres some problems with, with tick tock. It social media i, i am of the opinion that, you know, social media does pose real health and mental health. And, and, and, you know, in the big, inhibits learning from here, from kids that are just tacitly flicking on through these, through these reels and their Attention Spans are getting less and less. And quite frankly, the government really concerned about the content and the, and the medium, these reels and these, and these tech talking to you to shorts and all these things. They really concerned about it. Use, treat it like you did the eightys with their program. You know, so you start putting out commercial a member of what i was in the eightys or was commercial i read every day. Its 10 pm. Do you know where your kids are . You know, it just kind of all areas, but at the same time, you know, the, the, why are we running those kind of as like, look, theres some danger to social media. Do you know what your kids are posting . Do you know what your kids are reading and what, what theyre absorbing on the contents or for media if they were concerned which im concerned, thats the kind of thing that should be communicating to parents. Hey, look, there might be some dangerous stuff on these on these programs. You know, make sure youre, youre educating aware and keep these kids say, the same thing. And were going to continue the conversation to angel larry james, stay right there. Because after the break to, were going to continue this discussion and why there is alarm regarding the future of freedom of speech. Here in america will be right back the same just dont have to see power to kind of get an engagement because the trails when so many find themselves will support. We choose to look for common ground. The a j. K is off the gaining independence and from the form of the ivory coast remained under the Strong Influence of his full metropolitan pro french president. Phoenix who save one year, ruled the country for 33 years, ensuring the interest to from the dead. The government dean isnt in a new house, including his foster larry goods was dumb, so strong and the more appropriate after the death of a one year, a new lead to long combat. The ball came to power. And im ready to double open. For example, we have curious to know if well see the problem or the was it isnt good enough for tiffany to one is the one that lessons into the bronze to meet, usually deemed good luck. Boeing, enemy, a deep political crisis ensued. The walk a, the country 2nd largest city, turned into a theater of war from 130 to the other 2 voters of this. How did the dramatic events unfold and how is walk a recovering from . He is a bloody conflict. Watch on. See the welcome back. Im scrolling now hughes and youre watching the 360. 00 view now allies of eli and mosque believe if the government succeeds in shutting down tick tock. The next move will be to shut down x after designating you on most an Anti Government terrorist saying that if the government cant control it, they kill it. So is there any validity to this claim, or is it just another conspiracy very well, its bring back in our panel. Angel mccardle, chair of the Libertarian National committee. Larry ward present Political Media Inc and a james, right wall, the political commentator and comedian, thanks for staying with me through the break. Im gonna start with you on this angela. Why does the American Government seem to be really preoccupied with keeping information out of foreign governments . However, the idea of actually protecting privacy in america from the Us Government is considered a joke to them. Well, theyre not interested in protecting our privacy. Theyre interested in controlling our lives and controlling social media. And the free flow of information is really imperative to that. And certainly they want to see what were discussing and what were they want to know what were thinking about, right . And its social media is as close as they can get to that. And its their prerogative to just maintain control and prevent people from sharing dissident views. And i think that we really saw that during the pandemic. You know, there was particular narrative, they want it out there and they crushed any, and all the same things on social media with interest to you until you bring up the pandemic. Because i think that was where take talk platform became popular because of the pandemic. Because we were at home and everybody was promoting it. Do you know ive got to ask you, larry, if this was to go after it on most like we previously discussed, do you think that he would continue to advance this in court all the way up to the Supreme Court . You know, i do. I think he, i think he would absolutely be like hes, hes invested in and he put you put a fortune into, into protecting a free speech and it took and took ex private, you know, so it, i think he would fight and take it to the Supreme Court and, but the question is, is that you see what happened in the Supreme Court where you have to tiny Jackson Brown chain saying that, you know, pretty speech is really not free speech because the government has as a need to, if a government has a need to kind of slash speech, it should be able to squash speech. So we have a very scary element that we do have some members of, of the spring quarter way big would. Right. But its not a guarantee you not, not, not in todays world that if you looked at um, you know, like like you said, if you look at why this is happening, its because the main stream media is so distrusted and its, and, and they, the viewership is down so much prob, probably because of the parent demick and because of the 2020 election and be a lab, and all of all of those false barriers ever propagated, they dont have a control over the information anymore. The only and the information that the only true information is being spread on social media. So, you know, they ask that they have to shut it down for james, heres what im a little confused about because i remember this thing and american civics called separation a branches we have the additional we have legislative, we have the executive, this is a bill that is it does the law being drawn up by the legislative if this goes to, if this is a, has to be appealed all the way up to the Judicial Branch is not pity these Additional Branch and i guess its checks and balances versus the legislative, but that means that the justice is an Additional Branch as the ones making the laws in america, which is something republicans have been crying about saying shouldnt be happening for decades down. Yeah, i mean, id probably have to disagree with like the, the reasons that republicans have in the past raised it. I think that, you know, whats happening right now, id be remiss not to mention the else in the room. You know. Yeah, both parties in full support of israels, you know, matthews of palestinians and gaza and theyre trying to do damage control. I mean its, its the timings a little little sauce you got um, you know, full Material Support and diplomatic cover from the, by the administration. And you have, i mean, literally like idea of troops with no discipline, just showcasing their own crimes and ransacking houses, mutilated bodies, terrifying people. Its horrible and i mean, even, you know, dont take it for me. Even the ceo of the audio, which is openly zionist organization, has, you know, theres a leak audio call saying like we have a take talk problem. We have a generational problem. You know, theyre, theyre trying to stem. The flow of information, of course, calls the band tick tock, pre date this, and you know, its part of a larger conversation of just controlling this imperialist narrative. And just, you know, making sure that us Foreign Policy looks good. And of course, this is extra scary now that uh, you know, instagram recently quietly rolled out a new feature that actually limits political content. And the blower, you know, i dont know if youve seen people sharing the post saying like, hey, you gotta re enable this. Youre automatically opted out. Um, you know, its a little scary that now tick tock potentially could disappear and you know, theyre essentially trying to censor uh, genocide thats you know, back by our tax dollars. And um, you know, this is also coupled with the fact that us, Mainstream Media is all towing the imperious line there are just, you know, saying like, hey, this is, is, you know, a very watered down whitewashed version at best. And at where its just like full support for, you know, u. S. Foreign policy decisions. And, of course, is during an Election Year where again, both parties are in support of this. So. Right. Yeah, its, its a lot going on. Its interesting, james, because you do bring up one side of that issue, which is why a lot of people say we should have a diversity with whats going on now, please, but ive gotta ask you angela. Donald trump originally was for banning tick tock. Now hes reversed on it, is that, do you think because he sees that this could be, he was to it, there are these laws we have in america that protect from media monopolies. And if they go through with this, do your store setting it up that certain monopolies will exist and theyll be legislated by the government a yeah, i think youve seen right through it. I think hes mindful of what happened was parlor. And, you know, it seems like donald trump sometimes, like he tends to shoot from the help with his, with his policy decisions and, and his ideas. And he probably thought, you know, take talk is terrible. He, he doesnt like china, i have lets go ahead and get rid of it. Once he realized what was going on, he reversed course, which is great. You know, i will see Critical Thinking coming out of people in washington. We dont have nearly enough of that. And you know, if he gets elected, hopefully were going to see a little bit more, you know, pro, freedom of speech stuff coming out of out of dc. But well see what happens to and thats the thing, larry, you know, how is this going to have an effect . I mentioned earlier to james talking about how the Younger Generation is going once again. Why is Congress Going after . One thing that i actually use to get my information from uh, are you not, will this actually have an impact, especially those younger groups . Now let me point out the, by the ministration does have, they are very popular to dog or count that they started back up, trump has his, i find it very funny, right now that the same, you know, this is obviously a by parse and attack on a platform, but not by the 2 guys that are leading to be leader of the free world. Whats your take on it . Im sorry youre exactly right. Look. The, the, the whole idea that the big take talk is, is the threat that we have to be looking at is, is absurd. It is, you know, like i said, i do have a problem with the content. I do have a problem with the, with the, you know, what its doing to our young people. But there are other ways to handle that other than taking a business from somebody a donald trump course, just launch truth social and, and he is, he is a cute leo where more than anybody in the world of, of weaponized government because of what, what, what theyve done to him personally. So, you know, i think i think he, thats the reason why he changed his is tune. You know, i will take a little little umbrage with uh, you know, with james on, on the, on the as real thing. Um. Yeah, i, i above the belief that, you know, israel can do it. Israel wants to do, palestinians did what they wanted to do on october 7th. We should stay out of it and let israel defend itself. And its been, and quite frankly, its their Public Relations nightmare. Not ours, but thats, thats my personal opinion. And whether its a Public Relations nightmare or turns out to be a Public Relations victory at the end. All settings, all set, that is, is there. But we should be able to have this conversation. We should be able to have this conversation on every platform possible, like your show, you know, you, you have obviously a bit on your show many times and youll, youll never afraid to have the tough conversation desktop questions and have people talk. Youre not trying to talk over us or anything. Busy like that, and thats, thats the most important thing. We have to have these conversations and there we dont call the 360 the, for nothing you just completed. What i said about change. Theres 2 points of view to every situation. And thats why we need the very social media platforms. Angel on this case. Do they not know that if tick tock was to go away . Thats Something Else with just come in its place. Is that not getting more close to the idea that this is more about taking down a very powerful platform that already exists like twitter or ex as well . Sure. Social media is a hydra, you know, you, you cut off one, had another ones process, but our government has various, you pressed it and they think, you know, we, they can manage it, theyll control it. Theyll make sure that they get ahead of it. Next time theyll pass this legislation to scare people from investing too much in creating the same kind of platforms. And thats why we need to oppose this legislation. Theyre trying to get out ahead of it, and we need to do the same thing well, and thats why were having the show right here. And uh, larry james, thank you so much for joining me on this conversation. Well see where this bill goes. With the unlimited of boundaries presented by the information superhighway. Any government can regulate a platform out of existence, but very few things can be done to stop the creation of a new one. That social media platforms adapt and change for relevancy and if alternately strangled by regulations just like the actual till the starfish or the octopus. It will grow the appendage back in an even more resilient form. This is the same with regulating freedom. If you do something so obvious which limits freedom, the backlash, whether it be in the streets or at the ballot box, will be Strong Enough to stop. Well, at least in the short term sky. Now heres, thank you for watching the 360 here. The tab here, the establishment of the process where his email is been in 1933. The physician of the indigenous population in the portuguese colonies deteriorated dramatically, especially in angola. 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