Name: The Overreach of theTikTok Bill
Uploaded: 2023-04-05T18:16:56.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Overreach of theTikTok Bill' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-04-05. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Overreach of theTikTok Bill' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-04-05. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience that fucking tick-tock ban like what is this actual
law that bill has nothing to do a tick-tock
Yeah, yeah, there's nothing to do with it. It's it's all about having power to
restrict access to
What's the deal with tick-tock become like a fucking evil?
Well first of all, they nailed it adam curry doesn't think they are adam curry's
perspective when I talked to him and adam curry's brilliant
Yeah, he said he thinks that they're eating
Tech in america's lunch and they're trying to block block them out because it's
a chinese-owned company
And because they're saying that china's scooping up all the data. Guess what?
He goes that's exactly what these other companies are doing. Yeah, they're all
scooping up your data
Yeah, the idea that your data is going to china is a problem
What does that mean it goes to china like it's because china is represents
competition and they developed an app
That's the most addictive app ever
Sure, that's just adam curry mtv original vj. Yeah, that guy's like a huge tech
guy
Yeah, he's the fucking original podcaster. He's the pod father. He's number one
It's why yeah, he's a couple things
He was at ground level on a super like deep in on the internet man like and so
yeah
It seems the same seems it's just an app that they're making money off ads
But I will say what I've never seen before because christine my girlfriend is
like
She's on a non-stop and I really like that she stops herself now
But the fact that you're in a position where you have to stop yourself and like
She wait she can't wait for me to go to the bathroom whatever so she could just
start seeing more of them
And I I'm genuinely afraid
To try but I almost like almost like the same way
I want to try crack once like see what all the hubbub's about
I want to go on and be like is it getting I'm not into watching
Bite-sized videos or whatever it's not my thing
What it does is it finds what you're into and one of the ways
I know that is my 12 year old and my 14 year old have fucking completely
different feeds
They talk about it like my 12 year old is into like weird facts and strange
things
All kinds of stuff that the 14 year old's not into the 14 year old's into like
dress-up videos
It's like they're all people are in a different shit, and that's what it'll
find your thing
It's like really good at that, but it's also like super invasive
But then the question is how much do we know other than what we found out from
twitter?
How much do we know about like what these other companies are doing?
And you just sign up for someone's app and then like how about when you're
talking about something and then you see a google ad for it
Like what happened there?
Yeah, we all know by now
You can turn that off you can turn that that's actually a function if you go
into like face when your phone
You can all of them you put turn microphone off. It's an option
So it doesn't do that if you turn the microphone off though the app doesn't do
almost anything
It makes you almost keep it on that's the only reason I have it on but it hobbles
it
Yeah, it hobbles that's too far listen to you constantly
That's too far following shopping habits or something. It's like maybe that's
way too far
What about like an alexa helps you solve a crime because it like was recording
or something. I hate that
If we didn't know if you know if like this whole
Thing with edward snowden didn't come down. Mm-hmm. We we would and that was a
long time ago
If you really stop and think about it, we would have no fucking idea that there
was a government
full-scale surveillance
Program that was on the american people like on everybody. Yeah, like they
could spy on anybody
They don't have to have warrants anymore. They're just they can do whatever
they want
They could get all your emails all your voicemails like that is wild shit
And we found out about it because a guy told everybody and then had to hide in
russia
Damn, it's crazy
I scrapped 30 billion images from facebook and other social media sites and
gave them to cops. Oh my god
Yeah, it's back to a perpetual police lineup. Oh, so no more of that. They're
not in the system
They're not in the system look at that 30 billion images from facebook and
social media sites and gave them to police
So now they have your name and your face
So if you have a fake id if you you know, you get pulled over
They know exactly who you are and they can run that through some fucking
computer that has a database
Media everything you've ever done
That's so much deeper than dna evidence because they would say that you know if
someone didn't have their dna in
Yeah, yeah, you couldn't find some it was their first time my crime and they
weren't now
You could be like did you buy a shovel recently?
You're in the system if you have a phone
What is this tick-tock law because people are freaking out about it?
And that's people are telling me that I have to look into it confusion is
calling it the tick-tock law for
The restrict act is what it's not listed in there, right?
I'm sorry, but it's you know, that's like
Don't say gay bill never really says don't say gay in any of it. Yeah, that was
a misleading one. Yeah, it's very misleading
But that's also kind of how it's being sold to people is like this is what's
going to stop the bad tick-tock stuff
Right, but it's like hey tick-tock is not mentioned in here. So maybe it won't
do that at all
So what does it say?
So this is what instead of like just going after tick-tock. They're making this
sweeping
act and the restrict act is is described as
A systematic framework for addressing technology-based threats to the security
and safety of americans that sounds ominous
It grants the secretary of commerce the authority to review trans
Transactions by certain foreign entities who offer information and
communications technologies
Products and services in order to identify investigate and mitigate
Undue and unacceptable risks to the national security of the united states or
its citizens
This is this includes but not limited to impact the country's critical
infrastructure and digital economy
sabotage or subversion of icts in the united states boy that could be
interpreted a lot of ways
interference and manipulation of federal elections
Which could mean you're just skeptical or you're gullible and you bought into
some conspiracy theories and you're talking about them
And instead of just being able to just talk like a nonsense person you you get
jacked
So it's like subverting the press undermining the democratic process to steer
policy and regulatory decisions in favor of the strategic objectives
Of a foreign adversary to the detriment of the national security of the united
states like man
This is all so open to interpretation
Like yeah, think of those things impact the country's critical infrastructure
in digital economy. That's easy to do
You can impact it. What what if you impacted in a positive way?
Like what are you saying impact it the digital economy? Like how do they
What what have you done?
Do you promote a certain coin and it blows up?
Yeah, we feel like stop using ebay
Yeah, I mean if you if someone like think about like these bitcoin guys like if
if elon posts a dogecoin image
Immediately it goes dogecoin goes up, right?
Doesn't that impact the digital economy?
So what does that mean?
Yeah, I don't know
What if he says the crypto is bullshit because he believes it well doesn't that
impact the digital economy?
Yeah, they could arrest them
And are they talking about the digital economy that exists now or are they
talking about a centralized digital currency?
Was is which is what china does is that what they're saying?
They want to do are they saying that elon musk will be illegal for him to
I don't know what they're saying
The problem is the way that's i mean obviously i'm not a lawyer
But the way that's written scroll back down so i could read that the way that's
written
Yeah impact to the country's critical infrastructure and digital economy
The end digital economy is included in there like what does that mean?
I don't know i've never made money digitally
But look at this so this thing information
Communications technologies products or services right?
So this is this is icts sabotage or subversion of icts in the united states
What's icts again?
So it's information communications technologies products or services, all right?
So in order to identify investigate and mitigate undoing unacceptable risk to
the national security of the united states
So if you did something that's so subversion so they're so imagine if you said
I think these people are full of shit
And I think you know what they're trying to do is gain control the united
states
And I think we should resist that that would fall and there's that and they're
selling it as tiktok is doing this
Tiktok is subverting our elections or
They're not even selling it that way
So we have to be careful
They're not even selling it that way
These countries are
The foreign adversaries that may do bad stuff
So they're like it's a risk that they're going to do something bad with this
Yeah, like they've listed using a vpn as a way to subvert that which would be
And you get a gigantic fine maybe 20 years in prison what to use a vpn here. Oh,
how do you still imagine?
Imagine everybody says to get vpns
I'm always
Potentially criminalizing the use of a vpn
Service or sideloading to access services blocked from doing business in the
united states under the act
Due to the text stating that no person may cause or aid abet counsel command
induce procure permit
Or approve of the doing of any act that violates the orders issued under the
act what?
That's so confusing bro. They're trying to gain more power. This is creepy
This is not good
And I just gotta hope that people wise up and don't pass this does it seem like
this is something that they're passing
I don't know that it's gotten that far. I know it's been proposed you think
there's an order to it where it's like first
We bill uh china as going after hong kong and taiwan now
We see them as the enemy now a business associated with them. We can get rid of
that now. Yeah, I don't know man
I mean the problem is like tick tock zombifies people. So like if you take it
away, they're gonna revolt. Yeah, they won
I don't think you have to take it away
Um, but I think that act has nothing to do with tick tock if people have like
legitimate concerns
That people are abusing and overusing tick tock. That's a conversation people
should have sure
But if this this is not that it's not because of that
This is because everyone's using it too much about what they're getting when
you use it
Yeah, all that stuff seems very vague to me
Obviously, I'm an idiot
But all that stuff seems very vague when they're reading out like what they can
get you for
Yeah, and that last thing about acts that are listed as impermissible under the
act or whatever the fuck the
The wording was like what the fuck is you know, you're covering all the bases.
It seems like
It's so open to interpretation now
Imagine if something like that existed during the pandemic
Yeah, the beginning of pandemic where people go, you know, I don't know if
these fucking masks work
You know, you you would immediately get that's against the public health. That's
against that. Yeah, that's right
That's exactly legal trouble. So now we know they don't work. So then it was
We think that you can still get sick even if you get vaccinated that
immediately you would get banned from things