News · moment 10 of 19
TikTok Ban Congressional Hearing
from Baby's Gotta Go | The Tim Dillon Show #339 · #339
8 min
News
Tim covers the TikTok CEO's congressional grilling over Chinese data concerns, comparing TikTok unfavorably to Facebook's radicalization problems and mocking senators' clumsy tech questions like whether TikTok can access a toaster.
- Gwyneth Paltrow's ski collision trial is one of the stupidest things to ever go to trial—she's worth far more than the $300K being sought and is just fighting it on principle.
- Tim imagines the judge in the middle of the trial asking what the hell they're all doing there.
- Congress is trying to ban TikTok because it's supposedly a tool of Chinese surveillance, unlike Facebook which is supposedly American—despite his aunt joining Q Anon from casserole recipe searches.
- Facebook is far more damaging to America than TikTok; people are eulogizing dead dogs and threatening government members on it.
- TikTok moves too quickly to become radicalized on—it's just mindless scrolling, which makes it more honest about what social media actually is.
- The TikTok CEO explained that TikTok isn't available in mainland China, has its headquarters in Los Angeles and Singapore, and employs 7,000 people in the U.S.
- The worry is that China's government could harvest location data and facial recognition data from TikTok, though Tim notes the data theft cat is already out of the bag.
- Facebook should be banned first; Zuckerberg goes before Congress regularly, and you can tell it's over his head—he just wanted to get his dick wet and now every militia and radical group uses it.
- Tim has seen people genuinely radicalized on Facebook, unlike TikTok.
- At 38, TikTok isn't for him; he tried but you have to tap out at a certain point—the app isn't made for people heading toward 40.