Valuetainment - ＂Tim Cook's Busy Week＂ - Apple Pressures Texas Over CONTROVERSIAL Online Safety Bill

00:00:00.000 Tim Cook called Texas Governor to stop online child safety legislation.

00:00:05.840 Whoa.

00:00:06.560 Why would Tim Cook call to stop online child safety legislation?

00:00:12.060 This is a Wall Street Journal story.

00:00:13.800 Apple CEO Tim Cook personally called Texas Governor Abbott to request changes

00:00:17.420 or a veto of a child safety bill requiring app stores to verify users' ages

00:00:22.560 with an Apple spokesman stating if enacted,

00:00:25.300 that Apple marketplaces will be required to collect and keep sensitive personal identity information

00:00:30.480 for every Texan who wants to download an app,

00:00:33.440 even if it's an app that simply provides weather updates or sports scores.

00:00:37.980 The bill passed with veto-proof majorities would make Texas the largest state

00:00:42.520 to adopt such an app store accountability law,

00:00:45.160 potentially increasing costs for Apple and Google.

00:00:47.480 The Texas legislation mandates that app stores verify device owners' ages,

00:00:51.340 linking minors' accounts to parents for an app approval,

00:00:55.560 which supporter Senator Angela Paxton said her parent helped parents understand

00:01:00.240 what their children are really interacting with

00:01:03.460 and give them tools to help them make a good parenting decision.

00:01:07.200 Tom, your thoughts on this?

00:01:08.260 Well, Tim Cook's had a busy week.

00:01:10.240 He's working hard and he's got things going on.

00:01:13.020 But there's some things in here that America needs to think about.

00:01:17.480 Think about this.

00:01:18.440 If you want to operate a liquor store in the state of Texas,

00:01:21.980 actually in the state of anywhere, right?

00:01:24.540 Vinny, you want to operate a liquor store.

00:01:26.540 You have to check IDs, everybody in there, right?

00:01:28.920 And you have to get yourself a liquor license, right?

00:01:30.960 Do I have an accent like I want to sell?

00:01:32.680 No, no, no.

00:01:33.500 Don't do that.

00:01:34.720 I'll stay.

00:01:35.240 Just go.

00:01:35.740 I want to get into character.

00:01:36.780 But you want to do it.

00:01:37.540 You get yourself a license in some state and you operate a liquor store.

00:01:43.100 And you have to check IDs for everyone that doesn't look 30 0.98

00:01:45.700 and have those stickers that are up by the register.

00:01:47.700 If you don't look 30, we're going to card you.

00:01:50.160 Don't get pissed off.

00:01:51.020 Yeah.

00:01:51.440 Okay.

00:01:51.860 And guess what?

00:01:52.380 When you swipe their credit card, you're keeping sensitive information.

00:01:55.720 You have their name.

00:01:56.920 You've got date of birth.

00:01:57.940 You've got all kinds of things.

00:01:58.940 And you've got a credit card record.

00:02:00.280 So now all they're saying is, hey, Apple, if you want to operate in the state of Texas

00:02:07.020 and when kids are downloading apps like games where they want to buy additional levels and

00:02:15.000 things in the games or the games or things like Grand Theft Auto, they're saying, hey,

00:02:19.400 guess what?

00:02:19.820 You've got to link the kid's account to your account because parents are also asking, wait

00:02:24.960 a minute.

00:02:25.560 I want to know what's on Instagram and Facebook.

00:02:28.220 I know that certain things at Grand Theft Auto are going to get rated higher and I have

00:02:32.740 to allow, I have to allow my kid, unless they get around me, to get that app.

00:02:38.240 And Tim Cook's being told, but he says, listen, you want to operate a gun store?

00:02:42.080 You want to operate a liquor store?

00:02:43.660 You want to operate a supermarket that sells beer?

00:02:45.820 You've got to check IDs.

00:02:46.860 You have to do like this.

00:02:47.700 Guess what?

00:02:48.120 We're asking you to check and we're asking you to link because there's another thing

00:02:51.580 hiding an iceberg below the surface that Apple doesn't want to talk about and Meta doesn't

00:02:55.980 want to talk about.

00:02:56.520 And the fact is all these statistics on kids and the distraction and what's happening in

00:03:01.740 school when they're on social media during class, what's happening to the minds and young

00:03:07.020 girls, we don't need to do it now, but there's a ton of data out on young girls that were suffering

00:03:12.480 depression, hurting themselves or doing things online.

00:03:15.640 They shouldn't be directly attributed to social media and social media platforms that were

00:03:21.960 actively out there trying to exploit them.

00:03:24.520 And so now Texas has said, we've had enough.

00:03:26.880 Apple, you are the store.

00:03:28.560 And if you want to sell these things in your store to Texans, you got to check. 0.98

00:03:32.220 This is what we want you to do.

00:03:33.200 And they said, well, it's going to cost us a lot of money.

00:03:34.800 It says, okay, well, let me, let me check checking my notes.

00:03:37.660 Yeah.

00:03:38.100 You're the largest, most valuable company in the world.

00:03:41.100 I think you got some walking around money that you can, you can handle putting these

00:03:45.720 things in place and do development.

00:03:47.320 You're a, you're a software developer, develop things to make it easier.

00:03:50.540 Adam, your thoughts.

00:03:52.160 Well, I, I want to kick this back to you, PPD, because this seems like something that,

00:03:56.040 that parents need to be fully aware of whether they're in Texas or not.

00:04:01.020 You know, I, this past weekend, I was at one of my best friends, sons, bar mitzvah, 13 years old.

00:04:10.360 I took my nephew, Rory, who's 12.

00:04:12.780 So all my friends, their kids are 10, 11, 12, 13 in this age bracket.

00:04:17.920 And they all freaking have phones.

00:04:20.680 And I remember being at quinceaneras and birthdays and bar mitzvahs, you know, a hundred years ago

00:04:27.420 when I was that age and you were so fully in the moment and so fully present.

00:04:32.040 And now everyone's on a phone.

00:04:33.920 So what I want to understand is as a parent, how do you navigate stuff like that these days?

00:04:39.040 Because for me, it's very weird seeing kids, 13 years old, 12 years old, just face down in their

00:04:46.260 phone, not living their life.

00:04:48.420 I know you've been very clear about how you handle this, but what's your advice on the general

00:04:52.980 parenting with phones out there?

00:04:54.400 Well, I mean, look, what, what Apple is trying to do, we had Layla Micklewaite on and a Pornhub 1.00

00:05:00.780 owner, Rob, if you remember when we had the Pornhub owner on, and I'm asking him, saying, so

00:05:06.100 why aren't you just checking IDs for people that go on Pornhub?

00:05:09.160 No, we can't do that.

00:05:09.860 Why?

00:05:10.620 Is it because 90% of traffic would drop because nobody wants their IDs to be checked?

00:05:15.020 Like imagine you're going on a porn website.

00:05:16.920 Okay. 0.71

00:05:17.500 Post your picture of your ID.

00:05:19.000 Hell no.

00:05:19.760 Yeah.

00:05:19.920 I know who you are.

00:05:20.860 I don't watch.

00:05:21.500 No, no.

00:05:21.800 You, you don't want to.

00:05:22.880 The person's going to be like, I don't want to be documented.

00:05:24.860 Hell no.

00:05:25.480 I said, well, you would lose 90 to 95% of your traffic.

00:05:28.680 No, we wouldn't.

00:05:29.360 I guarantee you, you would.

00:05:30.800 So Layla Micklewaite pursues this and goes as far as doing this. 0.98

00:05:34.400 And I think she was one of the ones that, you know, caused this Senate bill 2420 to

00:05:38.460 be taking place at governor signature, aiming to require app stores to providers like Apple

00:05:43.300 and Google to verify users.

00:05:44.520 This is, this is, let me tell you, this is massive for a lot of people in the porn industry

00:05:49.820 that if this legislation goes through in Texas, guess who does it next?

00:05:54.800 All the other red states, they're going to say, we want the same exact thing.

00:05:57.960 When it comes down to phones, Dylan's over here.

00:06:00.580 So as a kid, your kids are going to ask you for the phone for a few different reasons.

00:06:05.000 Let's go through them.

00:06:05.960 One of them is what?

00:06:07.480 Is video games.

00:06:09.060 Okay.

00:06:09.500 What's the other thing?

00:06:10.660 Is listening to music.

00:06:12.220 What's the other thing?

00:06:13.460 Texting their friends.

00:06:14.640 So remember, you have three things.

00:06:16.340 Well, they can't buy if they don't have your credit card.

00:06:18.340 So Amazon.

00:06:19.000 Well, Amazon.

00:06:19.560 Yeah.

00:06:19.680 But if you don't give them a locked in account that they can't log in and just go buy stuff.

00:06:23.680 So you got what?

00:06:24.460 You got texting.

00:06:25.160 You got music.

00:06:25.840 You got video games.

00:06:27.000 Yes.

00:06:27.320 Or YouTube if they're watching videos and they're watching movies and stuff like that.

00:06:30.600 Netflix.

00:06:31.080 Right.

00:06:31.560 So as a parent, if you want them to like, we're on a flight here and on the flight, you know,

00:06:37.240 the kids watch movies in the, you know, on the seat, you can see that.

00:06:41.280 So that, that at least gives you that.

00:06:42.380 Hey, I want to listen to some music.

00:06:43.920 You hand a phone to him.

00:06:45.140 He's listening to music, but he's listening to music and he's texting or she's texting.

00:06:48.880 So, okay, now I'm texting.

00:06:49.900 Do you want that level of accessibility at that young age to be texting somebody nonstop?

00:06:54.740 I don't.

00:06:55.380 So now phones and iPads, you have to be, parents have to be very much because kids can tell

00:07:00.700 you, I just want to listen to some music, but they're really texting somebody and not playing

00:07:04.340 video games.

00:07:05.120 I'm definitely not for, yesterday we went to dinner and we had a few people that are not

00:07:08.940 accustomed to being with dinner with us and the phone was sitting on the table and it's

00:07:12.020 driving me nuts the entire time.

00:07:13.700 You know why?

00:07:14.400 Because I'm like, my kids are not going to come and say, well, if they can have a phone

00:07:17.520 on the table, why do you not?

00:07:18.540 And I'm like, no, everybody.

00:07:19.960 So, you know, we go to summertime, we go vacation together or Christmas or whatever we do.

00:07:23.260 What happens?

00:07:24.100 All phones are off the table.

00:07:25.580 Yep.

00:07:26.000 Tom, I, Vinny, we literally grab our phones.

00:07:29.100 I know this sounds weird and we fully put it on a different table and we don't even look

00:07:33.720 at the phone for two hours.

00:07:35.480 And what does it make us do?

00:07:37.040 We're talking, talking, looking at each other, talking, we're talking, we're talking conversation.

00:07:41.360 I think we need to go more and more in that direction, but this is to the average parent,

00:07:45.560 to the average person that's reading the story.

00:07:47.280 They're like, I don't even know why they're covering the story to the average person.

00:07:51.060 Trust me.

00:07:51.660 It may not be a big deal to you, but to somebody that's in business that knows what's about

00:07:55.500 to happen with Apple, there is a reason why Tim Cook picked up the call and called the

00:07:59.480 governor, not saying one of his C-suite executives to call.

00:08:02.380 This could be massive for Apple and very expensive across the board.

00:08:06.840 They do not want this.

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Valuetainment - May 28, 2025

＂Tim Cook's Busy Week＂ - Apple Pressures Texas Over CONTROVERSIAL Online Safety Bill

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