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Dale. Yeah, I'm gonna probably say a lot of things that have been said previously by others, but I mean, look, as Terrence said, um, it's interesting to see that somehow there's a unidia all of a sudden between both Democrats and Republicans, or particularly our Congress members, um, who are able to come together and really push for some legisl legislation and agree on things.
It does kind of make us feel as if like maybe this is not really about national security per se. Um look, I I I d I do feel like I need to say this. I feel that right wing media really does not like China. Um they used to not like Russia, but now they really do not like China.
You can't say the word China without saying communist China, right? They are they always have that communist prefix in front of it. And this company is owned by by uh by uh this company TikTok's owned by a Chinese company, and so they're they're they're railing against this. But the thing is, yes, they do want your information,
uh as we've been talking about, but so does Facebook, so does Meta, so does every company that you deal with. I mean, um Facebook sells your information to Cambridge Analytica. Like we we've been over this before so many times. Like I understand that there's a problem when it comes to our information going out there, but it's not like this Chinese company is the worst offender.
We have other bad offenders within our own borders, aka Facebook, and Meta, who are doing the the same thing. If if we ban TikTok, I worry about the slippery slope. Uh I I worry about us singling out this one company and not realizing that there are other bad actors as well. Um so if we ban TikTok, is that really fixing
the problem, or is there a larger problem that we should be talking about? And and and and that's my concern there. Um I don't think that banning TikTok is really gonna solve the problem of the so called national security issues when there are other bad actors on the stage. Thanks, Dale.