Podcast #508: TikTok, China, and U.S. Propaganda
Drunk Ex-Pastors
Christian Kingery
4.7 • 565 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
We spend most of this episode discussing the recent (but temporarily suspended) TikTok ban. We lay out why TikTok is unique and important and what might be the impetus behind the government's desire to ban TikTok. We discuss the "TikTok refugees" fleeing to RedNote, another social media platform actually owned by China, and the unfettered access it gives Americans into daily Chinese life and culture. We talk about how this is backfiring against the American government as Americans are beginning to realize that much of the government's concern over Chinese propaganda may actually be American propaganda.
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| 0:00.0 | Nihau. |
| 0:01.5 | Hi, bin daois. |
| 0:05.0 | Uh, nihow ma. |
| 0:07.5 | That means how are you? |
| 0:10.0 | I've been learning Chinese on red note, which we'll get it to do in a minute. |
| 0:15.0 | Yeah, a lot of Americans are learning a lot. |
| 0:17.0 | A lot about China. |
| 0:18.0 | Sure are. |
| 0:19.0 | How long have I been saying, dude, how long have I been saying, like, I do not believe what our government tells us about China? |
| 0:25.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:26.6 | Because you'll hear one, you'll see pictures of this like just utopian, state of the art, clean cityscape. |
| 0:34.1 | And then the government will tell you like, oh, they're oppressed and they have a social credit score and you can't walk out. |
| 0:40.1 | You can't jaywalk without getting shot by a sniper. |
| 0:43.1 | Right. |
| 0:43.8 | Turns out they've been lying to us. |
| 0:45.7 | Who knew? |
| 0:46.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:46.7 | I knew. |
| 0:49.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.0 | How's everything going? |
| 0:51.0 | I think you should give an update about your mom real quick. If anybody doesn't know jason's taking care of his elderly parents down in |
| 0:58.2 | california and his mom is uh reaching the end and um having a tough time i don't know if she is |
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