There's a lot more in the podcast related to tiktok than just this one clip. It's a really interesting discussion I think on why the bill banning TikTok was bad.
What I find interesting is that there are those on the right who would exert government power on some sort of moral authority. Isn't that what the left has been doing for year though?
The conversation is basically Tim Pool arguing that American social media companies fall to a different standard because they are invested by the SEC than say TikTok. But there is no guarantee that social media companies are publicly traded.
Bobby Sauce sauce is saying that the bill that was passed was too vague and could supress any foreign company wanting a social media company in the United States.
Tim makes the argument that Bobby is defending a company where he has the most followers. Bobby throws it back and says that Tim is pro-youtube because Tim was banded from TiKTok. Tim says that's not the point ( Tim clearly made that the point and simply didn't like that it was thrown back into him, and pivoted to the SEC. Tim can't take his own criticism at times)
My own personal view is that TikTok should be banned for national security reasons but the bill that was passed was too vague. It only enhanced the monopoly that there is with social media companies. It also opens the door for other countries to ban American social media platforms. The bill is too vague and the language around determination of countries where the platform originates is too vague. They did this so it doesn't look like we are banning China outright.
