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PREVIEW: #TIKTOK: #PRC: Excerpt from a conversation with colleagues Gordon Chang and Paul DeBrowa re the weaponized and militarized TikTok algorihthm & What is to be done? More on Monday.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 17 March 2024

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PREVIEW: #TIKTOK: #PRC: Excerpt from a conversation with colleagues Gordon Chang and Paul DeBrowa re the weaponized and militarized TikTok algorihthm & What is to be done? More on Monday.

1902 Beijing

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is John Bachelor, conversation with my colleague Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang and Paul de Brova a biotech

0:26.2

entrepreneur and National Security Advisor in Melbourne, Australia about

0:30.3

TikTok, about the TikTok-Toc, about the Tic-Tac algorithm, about controlling the Chinese population

0:36.3

with the algorithm and manipulating the American and European or any population with the algorithm? Is it necessary to close down Tik-Tok? What about

0:47.9

the algorithm? What would happen if we had control of the algorithm. This is Paul de Brova explaining

0:54.9

very bluntly where we are with the intention of the House of Representatives to

1:01.0

ban Tic-Toc. The Senate has not moved on it yet.

1:04.6

The general opinion that Tic-Toc is a weapon is a threat to the United States.

1:09.1

Look, it is possible.

1:12.4

It is possible for us to be able to control the algorithm.

1:15.0

And if we had that algorithm, that would be very useful for us.

1:20.0

And we would be able to, using cybersecurity measures, be able to using cyber security measures be able to have Tik-Tok and have no contact with China.

1:28.9

We would have to literally redo the app.

1:30.9

We would have to redo everything in terms of how all that stuff works.

1:34.0

The question is though, I don't think the Chinese would ever give us the algorithm

1:38.0

because that gives us the same algorithm that they use to control their population.

1:42.0

More of this Monday after the weekend with Paul de Brova and Gordon Chang.

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