what he has been saying that more important we should be looking at what he is doing. and in fact he is getting china ready for battle. arthel: you are saying president biden has to watch china very closely, try to combat what they are doing, i m not sure what that would involve what you think that s going to involve? and they should shut down tiktok in the meantime. but what about this impending war as you call it, refer to it there in china you re speaking of them going to invade taiwan is that what you re talking about gordon question mckay 3040 seconds. it s taiwan or japan or the philippines art could just be a dangerous intercept of an american plane in the global conflict. unites a sneeze to have a sense of emergency which we don t have us not just an oval office from its apartment the top reaches of the pentagon. i do not think they understand how fast china is moving.
about data security or false defendant uses creates content to such as glorifying drug use, or russian disinformation on the ukraine war. there is a constitutional basis to bandit despite the first amendment concerns. this is going be fought out in the courts for a long time. but there are ways to deal tiktok that do not raise first amendment concerns such as the u.s. government could expropriate tiktok for instance. the event of the chinese communist regime is using tiktok to illegally steel and send it data to china, millions of americans are on tiktok and they are thinking what do i have to do with that? you tell us why they should c care. unites it should care because china is circulating information
in this hearing, and then they re urn thing around and building out a long-term strategy for how they would overcome america if we were to to get to that point. neil: all right. congresswoman says enough with all the back is and forth on china, shut the thing down, shut tiktok down, and she said as much to the ceo who was africa seed on capitol hill. a tiktok creator who because very well with her small business, she thinks that that shutting it it is the worst shutting it down is the worst thing. so you think this is not a great idea. i think it s going to do a lot of harm to a lot of small businesses here in the united states. if this does happen. neil: why? well, i mean, we are reaching a broader audience than we were reaching on other social media platforms. so, you know, shutting down tiktok and banning it across the
sell certain technologies depending on the country, but this is very different. this is the speech of million 150 american million americans, and so i think that s going to have challenges. there s going to be the consumer backlash. um there s all kinds of things. and then there s the forced sale possibility, which is to me, uh , two things the united states stands for is the first amendment in capitalism and so and democracy. and so that s one of the big issues here. it s this. we re not china, and so we can t. they can t just by fiat just decide things and that s where they re going to run into real problems. aside from other delightful speeches, uh at congress in congress last week. and one of the things that came up this past week. tiktok users having some fun at the lawmakers expense for some of the questions that they asked, seemed to suggest that some of these members of congress don t really understand how the internet works, which is not the first time we ve seen evidence of t
united states would very much limit our platform and our reach about. neil: so how you ve tried those other platforms. interesting, because i ve heard that from other influencers and the rest who have quite a success on tiktok, there s something maybe in how they, you know, get an audience or assimilate an audience, but they don t have it on facebook and some of these other sites. i assume you ve tried those. oh, yeah. i have all the social media platforms available, and i definitely have tar more success and reachability on tiktok. if. neil: so you have a very thriving business, customers love you. i can understand that. you don t like to think negatively of, you know, a china overlord that runs the parent company, bytedance, but by almost all measures, sonya, they are scooping up information on maybe even you and a lot of your customers. of does that wore worry you concern worry you in. i feel like all of our data is out there on all forms of