TikTok

“If I'm China and I want to create a problem in in in that area of the world specifically a Naval problem in that area of the world. I, in the South China sea, I would probably want to utilize TikTok in order to influence the minds of Americans in a anti-US pro…”

“We, WeChat presents a similar set of issues as well for companies that are using WeChat as a payment tool or communications tool.”

“Oh, a little bit of bureaucracy, and then frankly you had senior leaders in the administration who didn't want to close the deal out. There were a couple of us advocating for it, and we ran into a buzzsaw, and then there was, we were a little late, Joe, to be …”

“Like, walmart.com entirely runs on Next.js. Mobile TikTok runs entirely on Next.js on the web.”

“Rather than banning it outright, I think we should force it to be sold to an American who controls.”

“I think it's incredibly legal and consistent with free speech to prevent a hostile foreign adversary from controlling what is increasingly a media and news platform.”

“As long as it comes with algorithmic control, By an American company, I would be fine with a forced sale, and that way American investors who own a bunch of ByteDance don't totally lose a ton of money”

“I think because this is such a powerful tool for the CCP that Xi Jinping will not allow it to be Sold out of his control and we'll turn it off instead.”

“And of course, why you can't see anything on TikTok related to say Hong Kong or Tibet or to Tiananmen Square or the Falun Gong. This is a tool of Chinese communist propaganda.”

“It didn't say that we were going to ban TikTok. It said that TikTok's parent company in China had to divest if TikTok continues to operate.”

“The two things that, you know, TikTok that your generation believes that a bunch of people don't is that socialism is better than capitalism and the rights of the listener are better than free speech. And those, that is what's on TikTok, right? Those are the t…”

“Kids don't want to be consumers. They don't want to scroll TikTok and play video games all day. They only do it because our current system basically doesn't give them options.”

“I think, like, people are becoming smarter and becoming more able to see inauthentic characters and actors and contradictions that people have especially in, in politicians and, you know, exposing Kamala saying one thing over here, then later she's saying this…”

“And I think because of things like TikTok, The truth has just gotten out there more, and so even if you see something of a video that you agree with, just liking, reposting, commenting, those things actually help to drive those videos up and to grow the audien…”