Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "TIKTOK BANNED IN U.S.!? HOUSE PASSES BILL THAT COULD BAN TIKTOK"

Episode Date: March 18, 2024

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticNotorious Mass Effect: Segment - TikTok in Hot Water: US Senate Considers BanThis segment dives deep into the ongoing saga of TikTok facing a potential ban in the US.The House of Representatives passed a bill requiring ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, to divest the app within six months due to national security concerns. This move has sparked debate, with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew urging users to fight for the platform and potential buyers circling the app if a sale becomes necessary.We'll explore the following:The national security concerns surrounding TikTok.The potential economic impact of a ban on American jobs and businesses.The challenges of transferring a complex algorithm like TikTok's.The timeline for the US Senate's decision and potential legal battles.The possible rise of alternative platforms like Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts.Join us for a critical analysis of this developing story.Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Hi everyone, the show here. Just wanted to share some thoughts with our U.S. users about the disappointing vote in the House of Representatives. There has been a lot of misinformation, and I hope to clarify some things. First, thank you to our incredible community. And first, I want to let y'all know if you want to see the video, along with the audio, go to Analyic Dreams video on Spotify to see the video along with the audio. All right, let's get back into the CEO of TikTok. are what makes TikTok so special.

Thank you for making your voices heard. Over the last few years, we have invested to keep your data safe and our platform free from outside manipulation. We have committed that we will... And obviously, this is not no PR for TikTok. It's more of getting both sides, I have a lot of information that we're going to break down,

and then at the end, I'm going to give my own personal opinion on what I think about the whole situation. But basically, they're going to get an overview. of this whole TikTok fiasco because, man, are they coming after them? So let's get back into it. We'll continue to do so. This legislation, if signed into law, will lead to a ban of TikTok in the United States.

Even the bill sponsors admit that that's their goal. This bill gives more power to a handful of other social media companies. It will also take billions of dollars out of the pockets of creators and small businesses. It will put more than 300,000 American jobs at risk, and it will take away your TikTok. We know how... That boy, spit a nanny. I need somebody to edit this, put the ether beat in the background, and just let it play. Because this man, throwing some statistics at y'all.

How important TikTok is to all of you, it is given our 170 million users a platform to freely express themselves, and it's empowered more than 7 million businesses in the United States. Our platform matters to the small business owners who rely on TikTok to make ends meet. To the teachers who inspire millions of students to learn and to everyone who discovers and finds joy on TikTok. We will not stop fighting and advocating for you. We will continue to do all we can, including exercising our legal rights to protect this amazing platform that we have built with you. We believe we can overcome this together. I encourage you to keep sharing your stories, share them with your friends.

your friends. This man trying to go for the appeal of the people. That's what you're trying to use right now. The power of the people. That's why he's saying this. Share them with your family. Share them with your senators. Protect your constitutional rights. Make your voices heard.

That man trying to run for president of the United States. But he based out of China. Anyways, CEO of course, Shao Z. I think that's how he said. Has obviously responded to the potential

band urging a lot of American users to share the stories and the impact has had in themselves as far as jobs and businesses to everybody, the family, you know, and most importantly, obviously, the representatives as this man can't catch a break.

I mean, not too long ago, I was breaking down Universal versus TikTok, which if you don't know, Universal Music Group is literally the biggest label in the world. If you're artists, is the top 1% he or she is on Universal Music Group. Drake, Kanye, when he, before he went independent,

Taylor Swift before, you know, Scooter Braun just took everything from her. Basically, the market share, I mean, let's just go to the current day market share. The market share is 62%. And this is the weekend of March 7th, 2024. So that's, The more updated chart is showing that Universal Music Group has 62% of the whole music industry market share. The second is Sony with 23%. The reason I say that is Universal Music Group, biggest music label in the world, going against TikTok, whereas they basically said the contract negotiations,

negotiations led to the removal of all of the musicians, Drake, Taylor Swift, Billy Eilish, every top 1% of the 1% you can name. And it's because Universal Music Group demanded higher compensation for artists reflecting the substantial role their music plays in the TikTok success, which makes so much sense because Universal Music Group literally if they wanted to start their own streaming, platform, which I think would be illegal because that's technically a monopoly. I don't know. But Universal Music Group can do whatever they want because at any point they could just say, well, if you don't want to pay us this much, take our artists off your platform.

And guess what? To my surprise, TikTok actually said that they're going to take their artists off their platform because, quote, well, this was TikTok to UMG. quote their own greed above the interest of their artists and songwriters so basically they said that UMG was quote putting their own greed above the interest of their artists and songwriters and basically they just ended up being like hey we could take your artists off our platform no problem so that's what led me to believe TikTok may be making a lot of money in this industry because no way you turning down universal music group i mean even Spotify and apple wouldn't do something as egregious as that so that showcase the type of power and the type of standing

that financial stability that ticot had and their future promotions so now that they got past that hurdle right which i even think they'll get past i honestly felt like they was going to end up folding and giving universal music group whatever they wanted so the reason why i bring that up is because they got past that gigantic hurdle and now forget the large music label in the world, the actual government is coming after them once more. I hope y'all don't forget that TikTok face bands like this, I think once or twice in the past three to four years. So the government has been trying to take down, hold up, let me see, how many times

has the government been trying to take down TikTok? Because it's been like numerous times and they've all failed. down TikTok Let me see Let me see if I could find that number of times Because There's something else

I was wanting to get into Okay so basically The amount of times So in 2020 The Indian government banned TikTok Along with 50 other Chinese apps But we're trying to get into America

So Let's see United States Federal Government has banned TikTok on work provide okay yeah this is another thing the u.s federal government banned TikTok on work provided phones and the house representatives passed a bill that could lead to a nationwide band of TikTok but we're going to get to that in a second there's a lot more in in that but um yeah i was looking for more of like a timeline of years but it just know it's happened multiple times

with the government trying to shut down TikTok and this time it actually seems like they're going to be successful as the House, which I think it's the second to the president to where like if they pass something now it's just the president's assigned. And I think president Biden already said his willingness to sign the bill into law, which would mean that bite dance now has to either sell TikTok or be banned in the U.S. So bite dance has to divest his company to our American group or face a ban through any bite dance developed app. So that being said, they're faced with an ultimatum, obviously. And potential buyers like Ex-Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

and former Treasury Secretary Steve Moninch, I don't even not say that, are expressing interest in acquiring TikTok if it becomes available for sale. So it's about to become a big. bidding war for TikTok because I'm not going to allow to you personally I didn't think TikTok would stand up to the government and it actually did so I wouldn't be surprised if TikTok actually ended up completely just being okay with shutting down as operations in the United States because I think that will lead to an interesting formulation of backlash from

American users. On TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, I think you would see the hashtag bring back TikTok simply for the fact if TikTok takes its stance, which it seemed like it's not out of the, you know, realm of possibility. They already stood up to

the biggest music label in the world and the whole social media app is ran off music. Well, the majority of profits. So now that you did that, I wouldn't be surprised if you're just like, okay, well, ban us in the America and let's see what happens. I wouldn't be surprised if they take that stance because another thing is the side that i'm on is basically i'm on the side of distributing or divesting by dance because i think u.s having control of u.s.

having control of u.s. analytics instead of china is a good thing china having all the statistical research data to sell to other companies. Basically, every social media app does it. But we've seen that China may be in an interesting scenario to where they could use that to as benefit and to the detriment of the U.S. Let's just put it like that, right? Because U.S. obviously is not going to do anything

to viciously harm. itself, I would say. But another country just might. I mean, we've literally had two world wars in the past. So it's not like out of the realm of possibility that somebody could have it out for America. You know what I mean? So obviously we had the Civil War, but that was over, you know, y'all weren't in slaves and, you know, we weren't trying to let that happen no more. So y'all wanted to go to war over that. But since, you know, black people are free now and there's nothing else to fight internally about. I'm not mad at

US wanting to keep social media data in-house. So with that being said, I wanted to get into the reason why I'm on the side of US is because in China, there's this thing called the Great Firewall, which leads all

so the Great Firewall of China. And basically it leads, it leads to a blockage of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. But the same thing people are getting upset about U.S. doing the TikTok, China's already did to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Literally blocked in the country.

Restricts access in China by the Chinese government. China has also had their own social media apps to go out of along with the blockage of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Guess what those are? The biggest one is WeChat, which is known as the quote unquote super app. WeChat is the social media platform that they're allowed to use instead of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube.

I'm trying to get into a trend here. They don't let any of our American social media apps into China. So on the other hand, why is everybody so upset that we want them to not even ban, it's not even ban TikTok. It's just give us some of the control in the U.S. division, divest bite dance in the U.S. division to U.S. companies. That's not a crazy ask. It's not like we're saying give us the whole company and give us majority of the market share.

So that's why I'm on the U.S. side. And just looking at history, I would. I would come to the conclusion that America would not do vicious harm with that information as far as the probability compared to other countries and what they could possibly do to America with that data. So anyways, some of the other apps are do yen. I don't even know what that is. D-O-U-Y-I-N is the Chinese version of short popular video app. And then we have, oh my goodness, these names are crazy.

I ain't going to lie to you. Yeah, I can't pronounce that. There's a lot of other ones. Bay-Doo, if I could pronounce them, I would. But I'm not just going to sit here and spell out every single social media app that they use to replace Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram. So what else? also another thing is that i believe that there's something else i was going to look at okay so a lot of people are because i want to argue you know i want to play devil advocate you know basically

give you the information of both sides i don't want to just beat you down with you know my opinion because uh well before we get into that let's get into the second tidbit i have of the CEO basically speaking to the american public after um the house which basically the House passed the bill with a vote of 352 to 65. So they was ready to get that out of there. It wasn't close at all. So anyways, this was

the following aftermath of that. Yeah, this is free plan. My trip to BC was pre-planned. And there's a lot of misinformation out there and I intend to clarify it. You know, there's a lot of noise, but I haven't heard exactly what we've done this from.

As you know, it's very disappointing for us that the bill passed House of Representatives. You know, we looked at it. This is a band bill. You know, in this form, with this passing the law, this is a ban on the app in this country. It's going to impact 170 million

American series of app. It's going to impact 7 million small businesses. And I hope their voices are heard. But lawmakers are saying that this is not. And then that man said what he had to say and got up out of there. He was like, hey, let me tell you something. And then he was like, after he finished the, let me tell you some part, he was out.

He wouldn't try to hear none of that. So there was something. else I was going to get into because it's not going to be a lot well it already is a long segment but it's not going to be um too drawn out because I want to lay out the facts for you and just let you decide what you believe from there I think well I already said what I think the um bite dance U.S. division should divest into U.S. companies but to play devil's advocate there's other people saying the opposite which I fact check and technically their numbers are not just coming out of the blue so they're like hold on let me see if i can find

this i try to find sources to what these people say because i'm no politician so whenever i hear something no you know people be like throwing out percentages ratios like they a little kid you know i'm saying they'd be like ratio this ratio that no it's not true ratio i mean i'm like what what it's true so i have to look it up and get actual like um um basically basically basically credible sites like a like a cbc CNN NBC like just a bunch of other like newsweek um it was the other ones I was using a variety basically ironically no pun intended I use a variety of sources it's not just one um US today like it's not just one I use I try to see all of the information and then see what's the what's the because there's always a middle ground that all of them

have as far as the old all of them are saying this so that one must be like the most true or whatever but you know anyways it's just always good to have multiple sources of information not just from one source um why i say that oh yeah because let's get to the double advocate so this is the other side of the argument this person is saying that america already owns are a good percentage of ticot so nothing will be changing with the ownership and this is basically him right here uh this is warren And once again, analytic dreams video on Spotify to get the video along with the audio. But this is what he had to say. Remember before Alon Musk bought the crime scene at Twitter?

It was all a conspiracy theory that these algorithms were silencing and canceling people. You guys are crazy. No, when Alon Musk bought Twitter, not crazy. Keep it operating with 80% fewer employees. But what we found is a lot of the employees were trying to do content moderation, shape who sees what and how they see it, which algorithms are used, how does it promote certain people and filter others.

So really what you're saying here is if you're not fully engaged with America's three-letter agencies in content moderation, we plan to TikTok you. So obviously you heard what Davidson had to say. I think the numbers that he provided is pretty interesting. As he said, who owns TikTok with a question mark? He said 60% of investors, including Americans, 20% plus 7,000 employees, including Americans, 20% founders, CEO and HQ, Singapore, data in Texas held by Oracle.

And basically, he finalized that by saying, what changes with ownership? He said he'll be voting no. So obviously, there's another thing I found where the bill came out. I don't know if it was the entire bill. I think it was like, it was like 60 plus. It was too much to have the entire bill on there. But basically these are some of the names that said no, which I don't know if there's like doxin?

Like, could people like showcase the route? I mean, obviously you see a little checkmark right here. It means like he's like a political figure, I think. Let me see. Yeah, this account is verified because it's a government or multilateral organization account. And that's the same thing that Warren Davidson has right here. So that's all I was like, well,

these accounts must be credible right but also also did fact check it but um that's what i said earlier when i was listing my sources because i don't know it's just always good to have multiple sources but anyways thomas massey i think that's how you said he said thank these 15 Republicans for voting against the ticot ban bill this week that would give president's broad authority to ban popular social media apps they deemed to be controlled by foreign adversaries. I believe this bill will be abused to infringe on the rights of Americans. Now honestly, I think there's a reason why US wants control of TikTok. And it just goes back into a lot of documentaries made about the effects of social media on people.

and the fact that not to get too morbid, but we have so much access to be connected to more people. But then on the other hand, there's increase in depression and other self-deletion rates, you know? So when you get into that aspect, social media has had an interesting effect on society as a whole that was once thought to or thought of as a positive but for so many who don't use it that way it's a negative because they use it in another way that has the ability to

increase their anxiety and their depression as social media has been linked to feelings of anxiety depression loneliness um low self-reveillance esteem because one thing social media is going to allow you to do is compare yourself to anybody across the world that's why before the internet if somebody had a significant other right they would probably be even before that before that significant other they'll probably be competing to get that significant other in that specific field that city state area nowadays you competing with the next in line prince in Dubai you competing with the drug lord in Miami

you out here competing with people you never thought you were even seeing life because of the access of social media and I don't have me going off on tangent but there's a reason why I'm saying this the whole aspect of social media just being larger than the government at some points as far as the effects I think it's true. So that comes back into why US wants bite dance to divest within six months to remain available in the US because they know the detrimental effect TikTok can have on US civilians. So now with this standstill of them telling them give it to us because we want the ability. to be the detriment of somebody's mental health. Let's just put it like that.

We want the ability to do that, not the enemy, not the other team. Like if they're going to do it, it's a problem. But if we're going to do it, at least it's owned by us to have the ability to give us more of a stronghold over society. Because every documentary gets into the fact that these social media companies, meta um of course x youtube amazon what else i mean there's so many apple they basically the tech industry has so much to do with politics is actually insane and i don't think an actual real documentary could be made because then it'll be exposing things that obviously they don't want out there so one of the more prominent on the rise social medias under bite dance getting into that realm

of being cemented because people thought tic tic was here was here today gone tomorrow now we're looking at tic tic talk in the same light as twitter instagram facebook like we know it's going to be here for a long call like it's no longer uh oh it's a vine 2.0 no it's here forever so the government is like hey In conclusion, we just voted to give y'all six weeks. No, not six weeks. Six months. So it's a long time still.

Six months to divest bite dance for it to remain available in the U.S. because of national security concerns. And of course, like I said previously in the segment, ass attempts has been made to restrict TikTok in the U.S. but despite the legal hurdles that they was trying to throw at TikTok they was able to overcome them many times in the past but this seems like the one time where not even the one it seems it is I mean the House of Representatives passed the bill with the vote of 352 to 65 and it would now proceed to the Senate with or for further consideration so

with that being said there's still uncertainty about the bills passage but potential buyers are already lining up for the inevitable outcome that TikTok will have to divest in six months that's basically all I have I mean some of the other things is just let me see that's basically it I mean everybody's just talking about you know the difference between America owning it or China. Like, if you don't think there's a difference, I mean, just look at the back tag of your shirt. You know what I'm saying? Whatever clothing you wear, just look at the tag, see what it was made in.

And you'll realize that, you know, China's been had a hand in what Americans deem as culture. But social media is where the government draws the line. And I think there's a real underlining reason for that. But I don't know if we're ever see it come to the surface yet or if people will realize what it actually means. But only time would tell. We'll see what TikTok does in these six months. Obviously, the CEO seems to be standing strong

and his brand that he's built, which he should. So we'll see what happens from here. So anyways, click my link to my bio. Let me know in one of my social medias. What do you think about TikTok? TikTok versus basically the United States government. And do you think that TikTok should have to divest to American companies or should US just simply leave TikTok be?