Good morning. It is Thursday, March 2nd. It is five minutes after 11. You're listening to

Kennel and Casey on 93 WIBC. So the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted yesterday

to give President Biden the power to ban TikTok. And this is a pretty far-reaching

restriction. One of the biggest ones of any social media app, the bill is known as HR 1153,

or the Deterring America's Technological Adversaries Act. And in it, the bill names TikTok and its

parent company and requires Biden to impose penalties against them, including and up to a ban.

I'm torn on this because I believe government certainly should ban the use of TikTok on

government devices because that's owned by us, the people as a collective. And there's no doubt

TikTok China, whatever, is stealing your information for nefarious purposes. And why do you need

that on your phone as a government employee? Well, yeah, absolutely. There's zero reason you would

need a TikTok. You should have anything to do with it, especially if you have state information,

et cetera, 100% agree. Where I get a little sideways on this is the idea that it should be banned in

America period because if you want to give your information to the Chinese, why is that my job

to tell you no don't don't do that? There's tons of harmful behavior that people engage in on a

daily basis that I don't believe I should be able to tell them not to do if they know the

information and they still want to do it. Well, a lot of people would say that it affects

national security. But many people are saying that what it does, this bill that is being proposed,

is it weakens a law known as the Berman amendment. Oh, yeah, you remember the Berman amendment,

right? I probably remember that one. Well, what that does is it prohibits the government from

restricting the free flow of informational materials such as movies, photos, news, and social media.

Yeah. And again, but again, and so this is the conversation that what the government does is

different from what you do. And I should have a concern and I do have a concern and I do want it

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