Name: Is There a Bigger Reason For the Potential Tik-Tok Ban?
Uploaded: 2024-03-26T18:15:12.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Is There a Bigger Reason For the Potential Tik-Tok Ban?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-03-26. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Is There a Bigger Reason For the Potential Tik-Tok Ban?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-03-26. Transcript available.

what do you think about the um the tick tock band did you see it yeah i've here's
the thing
just do it like i'm tired of this edging we're gonna do it or we're not gonna
do it i think that
it's a red herring for oh you really want to ban an app during an election year
you know where
arguably like it's a very democratic app in nature but i i think that the
timing is intentional oh
you do so you think because who passed it though that congress or the
representatives tick tock
congress years-long case against bite dance it was 50 to 0 that they're passing
this along
what are you saying zach it was both sides and it was congress oh wait both
uh but it hasn't passed the senate yet but biden promised to sign it if it does
if it hits his desk
so the house of representatives the house committee voted unanimously last week
to advance bipartisan
legislation that would force bite dance that's the chinese ownership right to
divest its tick tock
act ownership within 165 days i think it's just a shame because tick tock we've
seen it's just it's
launched so many businesses and it's a way to share information and it's a way
that i mean not to get
too like socio-political but like the more we're on social media and the more
that we don't like interact
with each other we've lost the concept of third places you know like public
parks and coffee shops
where we can go to talk to each other tick tock is that third place when you
ban that was it people
are going to go to facebook you know and it's like you don't can't really have
a community it's just
sad you know like we found a way to actually connect with each other and see
cultures and things that
we never probably would have seen and now we're going to ban it because why
because of security and
privacy brother my social security number and parents address has been on the
internet for years
yeah you know like our credit cards are there what are we actually talking
about
we had that's that's part of it i agree like why you don't think there's so
many other sites that have
our information i don't trust facebook and instagram to have our information
just as much as i don't
trust a different company but they're saying since this is a chinese company
that that some of the
argument is that china would never allow us to have a company over there but i
i'm more scared of our
information already being completely monopolized exactly um and if it's not
bite dance it's going to be
you know name the winner it's just but forcing someone to own it and i think
there's a lot of people
that say they don't want um like inform like or there's a theory out there that
they don't want
information like from israel palestine from like the war like that kind of
stuff like you know
censorship they want censorship yeah and people want to be able to like have
there be like a big three
who owns what you can see you can control it and so this is something different
so that almost makes
me feel like that could be the reason you know it's overall just very sad and
it's launched so many
careers for so many people and it's i think been an overall net positive for i
don't know my life
specifically but also just like i don't know it's fun oh there's no doubt it's
fun i mean i find myself
getting more um like in my down time it's like it's so interesting because each
moment is a new
what is this even if you have your own algorithm sometimes you forget that you
do and you're just
like what is this and then sometimes something flies in from like totally out
of left field and
you're like um wow that's so i never would have seen that that's interesting i
didn't know i was
rocking with this yeah yeah yeah yeah didn't know i was with it like that yeah
yeah you're like
damn i didn't know i was like that i discovered caleb presley on tiktok really
yeah he had that clip
go viral with post malone actually where he was like always tired of being a
cowboys fan and i was
like that's hilarious who is this guy i need him what do you say people who say
he's so funny that's
a good impression he's a wonderful guy i feel lucky to know him yeah it's so
funny like yeah some of the
the people you'll get to meet or know that's true yeah all the friendships you
made it's also
as what we do where we make content online that's a major platform going away
that you can't promote
on you know well yeah i mean it would be it would be really a travesty then you
would really have to
go through like yeah it's just yeah i wonder if there's more to it because i
just feel like china
has as much of our information as they want that's a done deal at this point it's
like everybody goes to
timu or something everybody's buying like shovels or whatever or whatever they're
getting you know
they're buying shovels rope duct tape whatever i'm just spitballing here