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Now, Americans should be very careful about using TikTok and having their private information fall in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party. And Pompeo was correct about this. Thank you, Mike Pompeo. I'm going to continue to publicly and privately applaud you for trying to ban TikTok. Do it now because here's how it works. You might say, well, Charlie Banning sounds so anti conservative. I'm a patriot, I love my country. I couldn't care less about trying to pander for the liberty of the Chinese Communist Party to come into our country and data mine and harvest and spy on our country. There's nothing conservative about allowing our greatest enemy into the pockets of America's youth. In order to create a TikTok profile, they ask for personal information and a lot of 13, 14 and 15 year olds willingly give the CCP very intimate details. So now the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party knows what your 15 year old likes in music, food, where you're vacationing, what you're doing. And they might even be able to access through the back end of your phone that you're probably paying for. If you're a parent listening to this and your 15 year old is using to be able to listen to private conversations, access the microphone within the phone. We don't know how deep TikTok and the malware that is within the application goes into the device that you're using. Some of this is speculation. Some of this is now hard evidence. Look, I want to talk to you about Internet freedom. Social media companies get to decide what content is suitable for for the sensitive snowflakes among us and censor whatever they don't like. Shouldn't you be the one to decide what you want to read or watch, not them? There's one thing, you can control their access to your data. And that's why I use Express vpn. You see, the problem with big tech companies is that they not only do they censor what you read, they track what you do online. They track what you're searching for, the videos you watch and everything that you click. They use this data to serve you ads and can match your activity to your offline identity using your device's unique IP. That's exactly why I use ExpressVPN. I use ExpressVPN to protect myself from the Orwellian tech companies that want to attack your computer or your device. These tech companies can't see my IP address at all. Sorry, can't see it. My identity is masked and anonymized. By a secure VPN server. Plus, ExpressVPN also encrypts 100% of your data to protect you from hackers and the bad guys on the Internet. Does that sound complicated? It's not, I promise. ExpressVPN software takes just one minute to set up on your computer or phone. You tap one button and you're protected. So why give these tech companies a free license to know everything about you? And then you turn around and sell off all your information. It's time to take back your privacy@expressvpn.com Charlie by visiting my special link, you get three months of ExpressVPN service for free. Who doesn't like to save money, right? It's ExpressVPN.com Charlie EX P P R E S S VPN.com Charlie ExpressVPN.com Charlie Now TikTok is of course owned by the Beijing based Byte Dance. The company denies that it hands over the data to the Chinese Communist Party and says it wouldn't even do so if asked. Well, first of all, if we know anything about the Chinese Communist Party, lying is a feature of the ccp. The best liars in the world are the Chinese Communist Party, not the Chinese people. There's a distinction between the political movement of the Chinese Communist Party that dominates the political system of China and the 95 to 98% of the people in China that are being held hostage by the Marxist Chinese world dominating, let's say aspirational world dominating Communists of the ccp. By the way, the ccp, the Chinese Communist Party, they don't ask before they take data, they just take data. The company is now run by an American, Kevin Mayer, former executive at Disney. Mayer was instrumental in building out Disney's streaming services. So now he's the CEO of TikTok. I sure hope the money that you're getting is worth the borderline treason that you are being involved with. I sure hope, Kevin, that it's worth the extra vacation home in the islands for you to be able to disenfranchise our country to America's greatest enemy. Before I go further, it is incredible to me how America's ruling class is willing to sell out our country for a fat paycheck. It is amazing to me about how the elites of America are more than happy to just put America last so that they can go get an extra vacation home. This was not the phenomenon in the early 1900s. The ruling class of America in 1910 and 1920, despite all of the alleged monopolization that they engaged in. They loved their country. They really did. Rockefeller, JPMorgan Chase, Andrew Carnegie. They loved America, our ruling class. They hate America. Who could work for a company like TikTok? Who could do something like that? I'm not blaming the employees. I'm sure there's plenty of good, useful, educated. I don't want to say idiots because that's too. It's too mean. But to use the Yuri Besmanov example, which we did a previous episode on they are being useful idiots. I'm not saying they're all idiots if you work at TikTok, but you understand what I'm saying. But for Kevin Mayer, the CEO of this company who used to work at Disney, he's perfectly fine with selling out our country so that your children can be hypnotized by a Chinese military asset. Now, I want to dive into more what Pompeo said, but you have to understand TikTok kicked off live Action from their platform run by Lila Rose, tremendous spokeswoman for the Pro life movement. They put forward and they propagandized the platform with far left wing anti American voices. So outside of the fact that the Chinese government is using this application to spy on our children and data mine, our children, our children are becoming assets of the CCP so they can know what their parents are doing. We don't need spies anymore. We just need TikTok. Despite all that, it's also really bad for the country and the fabric of our country because the content that is being pushed on TikTok is Marxist leftist garbage. And conservative voices are routinely kicked off TikTok. Routinely. In response to Pompeo's remarks, a TikTok spokesperson said this TikTok is led by an American CEO with hundreds of employees and key leaders across safety, security, product and public policy. Here in the United States, we have no higher priority than promoting a safe and secure app experience for our users. We never have provided user data to the Chinese government, nor would we do so if we were asked so to try to win goodwill in the Western community. TikTok has said that they're going to exit Hong Kong because of the introduction of a new security law by the Chinese Communist government. On May 21, China announced it was preparing to pass a controversial law which is expected to criminalize access, addition, secession and subversion. This is directly in response to the pro democracy protests in Hong Kong. Other industry mainstays, including Google, Twitter, Facebook and its messaging platform WhatsApp have said they are halting reviews of government requests for user data in Hong Kong. Now Secretary of State Mike Pompeo again blasted the National Security Law. He said it's totally Orwellian. He's right. He said this. Until now, Hong Kong flourished because it's allowed free thinking and free speech under an independent rule of law. No more. The United States condemns Beijing's repeated failure to live up to its obligations under the Sino British joint Declaration and these latest assaults on the rights of the freedoms of the people of Hong Kong. So look, while they're talking a big game, it still remains true that by law, TikTok has to share its info with the CCP by Chinese law. So let's consider TikTok's incredible influence here in America. I personally get hundreds of emails from students asking if it's Safe to use TikTok all the time. Parents are saying, well, Charlie, my kid's on TikTok all the time. I gotta push back on this. These parents say, charlie, what do I do? My kids using TikTok, have them stop using it. I mean, God bless my parents. I actually grew up in a time of really tough parenting. I don't know what's going on today where people think that the kids all of a sudden run the household until your kid is 18. Unless they're paying for the phone, you delete the app from them, you take the phone from them. You understand? Human beings can operate without phones or at least a smartphone. People say, well, my kid needs a phone. Well, then go buy them that huge phone on television that they, that they sell to elderly individuals. What is it called? The June Bug or something. We'll get the name of it. Where the buttons are like the size of Saturn. Okay? Or get them a flip phone. I grew up with a flip phone. I was just fine, okay? This idea that your kid needs a smartphone and your kid needs a TikTok app, I don't understand. I don't want to accuse any parents listening to this and make you feel bad, but your children are not your friends, okay? Your children are, are your children. You're trying to pour into them, to make, to develop them into human beings that can live independently in society. And you know what is best for them. And what is best for them is not having TikTok on their phone. First of all, spend some time on TikTok. It's just mountains of steaming garbage, basically, the content. You have 15 and 16 year olds that are engaging, let's just say in leftist behavior it's called Jitterbug. The phone's called Jitterbug, by the way, and it's I'm half joking. Okay, Jitterbug. If you look just, just right now, look up on the Internet, the phone, jitterbug, and you should get a good laugh out of it. Okay? What I'm saying is this. If you even spend some time on TikTok and your kid is using it, it should appall you. If you love America, if you happen to be a Christian, it should really appall you. TikTok is a propaganda arm of the CCP. Your child can function just fine in a social setting in high school without having to use an application that is fostered, supported, funded and monitored by the military of the Chinese Communist Party. Secretary Pompeo said this. Only use TikTok if you want your personal information in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party. I put a lot of the blame here, by the way, on American parents. Why they let their kids use this application at all in the first place is beyond me. I mean, I meet 12 year olds sometimes and they have smartphones. What are you doing? I didn't get my first phone, which was like a really weird, awful flip phone, Till I was 17, and I had to earn it. I had to work all summer to get it. Now you have 12 year olds that have smartphones. It's not good for the country. It just isn't. Just overly indulging America's youth in technology is not good for anyone. I go out to eat sometimes and I see entire families and the parents just hand iPads and phones to their kids and they don't talk at all throughout the entire meal. And look, I'm victim number one of using my phone all the time, mostly for work and for productive means, of course, to try to save the country. But mind you, when I was 11, 12, 13, 14 years old, when you went out to dinner, you looked your parents in the eye and you discussed ideas, you told them about your day. Now I feel as if there's just this digital world that most of our kids live in and parents almost use technology as an excuse to keep them quiet. I'm not saying all parents. I don't want to accuse parents listening to this. There's a lot of parents struggling with a lot of different things. So I don't want to paint too broad of a brush. I'm just making a general, I think, important societal observation here, because if we just keep on allowing our kids to overly indulge in this form of Orwellian technology, we are not going to have a country. And by the way, this is coming from a 26 year old. Okay, I'm 26 years old telling you that what's happening right now with the amount of social media usage and technology that is overly, let's say, proselytized on America's youth is damaging. I'm in support of, of course, using tools for the betterment of freedom and the gospel and the kingdom and of our country. However, I think that now that we have 8 year olds and 12 year olds that are getting smartphones and it's as if it's connected to them at the hip, I think it stunts their development. I'm not going to say all of a sudden they're going to stop growing. That's not what I mean. I'm not their physical development. I don't think it creates complete people. I don't. We have 13 year olds that are addicted to Chinese applications. We have children committing suicide because they're not getting enough social media likes on TikTok. If you're a parent out there, it's okay to take all your children's devices away and buy them a flip phone. They're going to be incredibly upset on the front end and they might just have a happy childhood after that. I get on my hands and knees and thank God, I really do quite often that I grew up in an America where I didn't have this nonsense around me. I'm 26 years old. Ten years ago, none of this nonsense existed. Whether you're working from home or on your fitness, you want to know what you're listening to is actually what you want to be listening to. Like the Charlie Kirk show, not some person in the background watching the Rachel Maddow show. That would be really bad. Everyone needs a great pair of wireless earbuds. But before you go dropping hundreds and hundreds of dollars on a pair, you need to check out wireless earbuds from Raycon. You already know that Raycon start at about half the price of any other premium wireless earbuds on the market, and that they sound just as amazy, just as amazing as other top audio brands. You know, Mr. Producer is using his Raycon earbuds right now and he loves them. Their newest model, the Everyday E25 earbuds, are the best ones yet. 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So this entire issue of the Chinese Communist party and its infiltration into the pockets of America's youth and when I say the pockets I mean that's where you keep your smartphone has really been spearheaded by Senator Josh Hawley for months and it's gaining serious momentum. Senator Hawley he introduced a bill also taking aim at Apple by the way, but especially TikTok, the national security and Personal Data Protection Act. Now this bill would prohibit American companies from storing user data or encryption keys in China. As I mentioned before, Chinese law requires cloud services offered to its citizens to essentially be operated by Chinese companies and that Chinese customers data be stored in the country. So here's what it would do. It would force Apple to choose between discontinuing icloud service there or adjusting its operations. I'm in complete support of this. Apple chose to partner with a state owned company. I'm going to mispronounce this but it's Gaiju Cloud Big Data Industry company limited limited for its data center for Chinese users but has said that Apple alone controls the encryption keys. However, Senator Hawley said this quote Chinese law allows the Communist party to seize data from American companies operating in China whether whenever it wants and for whatever reason it wants. Let's just listen to some tape of Senator Hawley at a Senate hearing talking about this issue.