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00:01:15.000Last week, we had Senator Josh Hawley on the program who laid out a very convincing and persuasive case about how damaging TikTok is to our country.
00:02:21.000YouTube, who has well over a thousand lobbyists on payroll, Facebook, who has hundreds of lobbyists, and other tech companies, started to build a coalition together to try to get Washington, D.C. to ban TikTok and do more than ban TikTok, by the way.
00:02:56.000And the biggest winner, by the way, of a TikTok ban would be YouTube owned by Google.
00:03:00.000And we called this nine or 12 months ago.
00:03:02.000No one really took us seriously because we're on these platforms so often.
00:03:05.000But YouTube about a year ago launched YouTube Shorts a little bit actually before that, but they've really been ramping it up.
00:03:10.000And so YouTube would be a major market winner if they are able to ban TikTok because they already have a TikTok lookalike competitor.
00:03:18.000So does Facebook on Instagram, something called Instagram Reels.
00:03:22.000So it's in their own business interest to get this done.
00:03:24.000So that's why Washington, D.C. just sprang into action, not because of any concern about the CCP or any problem with TikTok or any concern that TikTok is spreading this trans social contagion.
00:03:45.000We have something that has many holes in it.
00:03:48.000A data privacy issue, from the content issue to the censorship of conservative voices.
00:03:55.000So they seize that and they put it on display.
00:03:59.000They put this individual who actually is from Singapore representing the Chinese Communist Party, who I think very clumsily navigated the congressional oversight hearing, didn't really answer questions, was very sloppy, was very unpersuasive about who hosts the data and didn't answer questions directly.
00:04:20.000And so then at that moment, it looked as if finally there was going to be a bipartisan breakthrough to do something significant and something good, something real, which is, hey, let's get TikTok out of our country.
00:04:34.000And then last week, we kind of took pause and you, the audience, to your great credit, heard me out.
00:04:40.000Now, some of you thought I was nuts after we listened to Senator Hawley, but a fair amount of you listened to my concern.
00:04:49.000And in a kind of unscripted way, I just started to say, look, I haven't read the bill, but I know these people that if they're trying to tell you all of a sudden that they want the power to ban social media companies, they're just going to use it to ban social media companies they don't like even beyond TikTok.
00:05:04.000And we were totally speculating, by the way.
00:05:06.000This is before we actually had the opportunity to read the bill that would do this thing.
00:05:12.000In fact, let's just play a piece of tape from our program last week.
00:05:17.000This was completely just kind of off the cuff, just kind of going on our instinct, saying, wait a second, yes, TikTok awful.
00:05:26.000However, are we going to act in the same pattern and behavior that we did post 9-11 with the Patriot Act?
00:05:34.000It's interesting because I definitely sympathize with this idea of CCP awful, evil, modern day Nazis, digital fentanyl.
00:05:45.000But I'm a little bit hesitant in one regard because giving the government a lot of power post 9-11, because we were very concerned about radical Islamic fundamentalists, understandably concerned, ended up creating an infrastructure that then could be used against conservatives.
00:06:06.000I hope we've learned our lesson that sometimes a bipartisan prudent action against a foreign actor can set a precedent to then be used against a conservative company.
00:06:20.000Are we opening up a potential opportunity for Democrats and the regime to say we can now ban free speech companies?
00:06:29.000And that was before we ever read the piece of legislation.
00:06:32.000Well, now there is a piece of legislation that confirms our concern.
00:06:37.000Our concern is that Washington, D.C. was going to consolidate power in both political parties and trigger a move to be able to use the hatred and the concern of TikTok to establish a new censorship regime.
00:07:01.000What this is, it's a reminder that after 9-11, we passed the Patriot Act, which has been a disaster.
00:07:11.000The Patriot Act and elements of the Patriot Act were used against President Trump.
00:07:15.000They've been used against moms and dads at school board meetings.
00:07:18.000So you have these great intentions and you give the fourth branch of government all of this power.
00:07:25.000And then they're never given congressional oversight.
00:07:28.000And then in the years that follow, you have a new precedent that is set that gives the fourth branch of government, and in this case, the Secretary of Commerce, basically jury, judge, and execution ability to be able to restrict speech online.
00:08:18.000And when you actually dive into this piece of legislation called the Restrict Act, it would be, if put into law, one of the great attacks on speech in American history.
00:09:35.000What the Restrict Act will do will pale in comparison.
00:09:40.000And we'll make the Patriot Act pale in comparison.
00:09:42.000This right here will give the fourth branch, the regime, the deep state, unprecedented ability to shut off all of our digital dissident distribution networks.
00:09:56.000And that is exactly why all of a sudden the bipartisan regime is pushing this piece of legislation through.
00:10:02.000I'm just getting started on this, but we got to wake up, everybody.
00:10:05.000There is a move afoot to give power in an unprecedented fashion to censor our voice.
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00:12:13.000So you could imagine that the Commerce Secretary banning Telegram because they say, look, it's founded by Russians.
00:12:21.000The Restrict Act would have total ability and freedom, not freedom, the capacity, capability for the government to be able to stamp them out.
00:12:33.000But if you look even further ahead, there's basically zero limitations on who the Secretary of Commerce could declare a foreign adversary or what they could do and what they can end up banning it.
00:12:45.000Now, you might say, well, Charlie, this bill has no chance of passing.
00:13:18.000Bannon and our program are two of the most outspoken anti-CCP programs.
00:13:24.000But now this bill has huge bipartisan support, including your Republicans that you elect, like John Thune, who just seem excited to be able to give the Secretary of Commerce complete ability to go ban Rumble and Twitter and Telegram at a snap of a finger.
00:13:42.000If they just say, oh, we heard a rumor that there is foreign interference, they would never go after Facebook or Google and Facebook or Google.
00:13:48.000They would love this piece of legislation because all Facebook and Google have to do then is whisper in the ear of a lawmaker that they have or whisper into the Secretary of Commerce and say, hey, go ban our enemies because they might be foreign.
00:14:01.000And again, let's repeat it: TikTok is garbage.
00:14:05.000But you know what's even more dangerous than garbage?
00:14:08.000Having our own federal government be able to destroy every single social media application that we are currently able to get the truth out.
00:14:16.000If it wasn't for Rumble, we would not be able to get the truth out on the vaccine.
00:14:20.000If it wasn't for Salem, if it wasn't for now Twitter, if it wasn't for Telegram, what would the landscape look like?
00:14:25.000And that is exactly why the Uniparty is licking their chops.
00:14:29.000And so speaking of co-sponsors, one of the co-sponsors of this bill, one of the people that support this bill is Lady Graham.
00:14:38.000Lady Graham, who endorsed Donald Trump, he's a big co-sponsor of the bill.
00:14:43.000And this goes to show exactly how Washington, D.C. operates.
00:14:47.000He was confronted about it on Jesse Waters' program.
00:16:12.000Those are the people that are about to put a piece of legislation into law that very well could give unprecedented tyrannical authority to the Secretary of Commerce to basically ban Telegram, Rumble, Real America's Voice, Salem at a moment's notice.
00:16:29.000He doesn't even know what the bill consists of.
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00:17:43.000So unlike Lady G, we actually have the bill here, the Restrict Act.
00:17:49.000You guys can all check it out as a citizen.
00:17:52.000S686 for the 118th Congress, Restrict Act.
00:17:57.000The first sentence to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to review and prohibit certain transactions between persons in the United States and foreign adversaries for other purposes.
00:18:09.000Now, mind you, they could pass a very clear and simple piece of legislation targeted at TikTok, but you're trying to tell me the regime is going to pass up this opportunity to create a new Patriot Act?
00:19:04.000Or is this just read by, you know, is this composed and basically put together by lobbyists?
00:19:09.000And if you know how legislation works, you know that K-Street lawyers, the DHS lawfare types, working for the Alliance of U.S. Tech and Deep State Interests probably wrote this Restrict Act.
00:19:20.000This is written by Google and written by Facebook and written by congressional staffers.
00:19:24.000And on this program, we're going to do the rare thing.
00:19:26.000We're actually going to read the bill to you.
00:19:29.000And Congress thinks they can just sneak this by because they say, oh, you know, people don't like TikTok.
00:19:33.000Yeah, that's true, but I like Liberty a lot more than I hate TikTok.
00:19:37.000Okay, so here's the piece of legislation.
00:19:39.000Let's just talk, let's read it straight from there.
00:19:42.000Section six, designation of foreign adversaries.
00:19:47.000The secretary may, in consultation with the director of national intelligence, designate any foreign government or regime as a foreign adversary.
00:19:55.000If the secretary finds that the foreign government or regime is engaged in a long-term pattern of serious instances of conduct significantly adverse to the national security of the United States or security or safety of U.S. persons.
00:21:08.000Gives the government the power to, quote, review and prohibit certain transactions between persons in the United States and foreign adversaries.
00:21:16.000So not only no more mail-ordered brides, that means the government has the power to, quote, enforce any mitigation measure to address any risk arising from any covered transaction by any person or with any respect to any property subject to the jurisdiction of the United States that the secretary determines.
00:21:39.000The federal government wants to watch anything you do on the internet.
00:21:43.000Not just watch everything you do on the internet, but be able to use the power of the federal government to shut up any business, any company that might be remotely connected there.
00:21:55.000And so basically their argument, if you go read this, John Thune from South Dakota, by the way, we have a lot of patriots in South Dakota.
00:22:44.000Just give up the power and just whatever.
00:22:48.000By the way, all of this ties into hearings being held currently by the House Weaponization of Government Subcommittee.
00:22:54.000And we're learning more and more how the government created these informal agreements with Twitter and the rest of big tech to censor Americans.
00:23:01.000The regime in Washington, D.C., views the American people as a population to be monitored and controlled.
00:23:07.000This is a psyop that we're seeing happen right now.
00:23:10.000The first step is to put on display how clumsy, how awful, how just corrupt, how terrible TikTok is.
00:23:25.000I mean, that guy that testified was a disaster.
00:23:28.000Then step two is to seize on that consensus, seize the moment with a piece of legislation that nobody actually reads that could change the First Amendment as we know it.
00:23:45.000You have an emergency, you have a crisis, you have something, and all the cockroaches come out and they use the template, they use the blueprint to be able to restrict our freedom, restrict our liberty.
00:23:56.000So, in the bill here, it says: here's just a couple examples: companies connected with the Russian Federation.
00:24:03.000Now, again, Telegram is not connected to the Russian Federation, but the owner happens to be Russian.
00:24:12.000And by the way, it says, including, but not limited to the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, Venezuela.
00:24:23.000And here's what it says: What is the definition?
00:24:27.000If you have an equity interest in the company, if you have an equity interest in the company, including a foreign national connected to.
00:24:40.000So, for example, if a dissident who has a Chinese passport, who might have formerly been part of the CCP, invests in a company, for example, Getter, this is all public information, they could ban Getter.
00:24:54.000They could say that we're going to get rid of Getter because the investor in Getter is a Chinese Communist Party dissident, multi-billionaire guy.
00:25:09.000And yet, Republicans are the ones co-sponsoring this.
00:25:12.000And you got to wonder, what's really going on here?
00:25:16.000And the answer is so clear: establishment Uniparty Republicans like Lady Graham and the Turtle and many of these other people, their life would be easier without the Salem Radio Network, without Real America's Voice, without Rumble, without a robust open Twitter, and without Getter.
00:26:53.000And to Senator Josh Hawley's great credit, who last week came on this program and said we need to ban TikTok, he's now speaking out against this bill.
00:27:25.000And it sends the message to Communist China that you cannot buy us.
00:27:30.000So, what Senator Hawley is doing there is he's introducing a separate, more targeted piece of legislation and is opposing the spirit of the Restrict Act.
00:27:47.000It's an excuse to then be able to build this mass leviathan.
00:27:54.000Why is it that Dan Sullivan and Mitt Romney and Deb Fisher and Jerry Moran and well, Susan Collins, you shouldn't have to ask Mitt Romney, Shelly Moore Capito?
00:28:13.000If you live in any one of their states, you should ask him, have you read the bill?
00:28:17.000I hate to be cynical, everybody, but basically where I'm at is there will not be a way for the quote-unquote ban TikTok without empowering these cockroaches.
00:31:24.000This activity does not stand up to the scrutiny.
00:31:27.000And even, you know, Lindsey Graham, if we had the longer clip, he says, well, I don't want the Chinese Communist Party to be able to get the date of my children.
00:31:36.000We're actually, you, if all of a sudden you're really worried about that, there's a much more bold legislative agenda that you could be embracing than just destroying conservative speech online and giving the Secretary of Commerce war authority to be able to choose what social media platforms they want to exist and which ones they don't.
00:31:57.000Someone says here, Charlie, Restrict Act is terrible.
00:32:01.000I don't know if they're stupid or if they are being probed by lobbyists or if they actually have a sinister intent because they would love nothing more than to be able to have Department of Homeland Security, Department of National Intelligence, Department of Commerce be able to have a button to restrict the speech of people they don't like.
00:32:25.000We have to find out what staffers wrote this bill.
00:32:30.000This thing, if it was not for Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon's war room, Jesse Waters, and this program, I'm afraid this thing would have passed.
00:32:38.000I'm afraid this thing just would have glided through and, you know, a couple objections here and there.
00:32:58.000Good intentions are taken advantage of by bureaucrats.
00:33:06.000The good intention of wanting to stop the CCP from administering digital fentanyl is currently being totally perverted by these bad actors.
00:33:17.000I'm at a current place right now where I don't see a world where we can meaningfully ban TikTok without also empowering the Leviathan machine.
00:33:26.000You give up liberty, be careful what you get in return.
00:33:31.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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