republican vote. but the point is this bill ought to be brought to the floor so the american people can see whether american members of congress stand on this issue. and hopefully they will reelect members who are committed to protecting young people this country from the violence, and throw the people who are not willing to do that. but avoiding the vote is cowardly. it avoids and allows them to avoid responsibility for the decision. we have an absolute responsibility to show the american people who is fighting for common sense gun safety legislation. it will help keep our kids, our communities safe. and who is standing in the way? new topic, last, year you proposed different legislation, antitrust legislation. you had a huge amount of focus on social media companies, the impact they re having on our kids, our culture, our society. what is your take on tiktok? do you support this idea to ban
penny they can to protect that. they spent hundreds of millions of dollars to prevent these bills, prevent reforms. the good news is the american people are demanding, we need big tech to understand the danger. congressman, you re so accustomed to doing television. there you are, staring right at the camera. and i m looking at you right here. but here, face-to-face, here s what i want you to answer for me. i watch the tiktok hearing last week, the howard schultz hearing this week, they get grilled on the, hill a lot of important questions, a lot of big issues. but what happens next? because based on my experience, they get humiliated on the hill, they hop on their private planes, they go home, they re having a good night sleep, and nothing comes of it. it s a big show for congress that makes a great soundbite for you guys and video that goes viral, it does nothing for the american people. look, you re absolutely right. and that s why we had the hearings, when democrats are in charg
the app entirely in the united states? look, i think a lot of legislation we propose is because these large technology platforms are monopolies. they re using their monopoly power to relentlessly surveil and collect data and information about american citizens. i there are no privacy protections in. place and because they have no real competition, there is no incentive for them to be careful about what they use or how they apply algorithms to amplify what people post. this is a big problem. it s a big problem for american technologies company. it s a big problem for any of these large platforms, including tiktok. what we ought to be doing is passing legislation to protect the privacy of all americans, to protect the use of data so that people will have to consent to the use of their data before it can be monetized. and that will apply to anyone who does business in the united states, not just tiktok. so, i think there s a lot of interest in tiktok. but the very same issues that peopl
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have been written on the back of a napkin without actually having a thoughtful expectation of how you re actually going to implement these laws. and so i think at the end of the day, yes, we recognize that screen time is addictive that people with means take great lengths to reduce the amount of screen time that their children have. and yet it s always the children that come from disadvantaged backgrounds that don t get those best practices, and i think again, we have to talk about the fact that there has been a reluctance on capitol hill to deal with anything from the antitrust legislation to the dangers that we know are emerging from this. you think that both republicans and democrats for virtue signaling when it comes to social media, i think not just social media in general. when you were talking about all the cultural issues. there s a lot of virtue, signaling legislation, people writing things down on paper. we can actually be implemented effectively, but they do it in order to p