So, Good evening. It's Friday, March 31st. Welcome to a new episode of System Update,

our live nightly show. That airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m.

Eastern exclusively here on rubble the free speech alternative to YouTube tonight

the indictment of President Trump is obviously a massive story which is why we

devoted our entire show to it last night a full 90 minute

episode but it's important that we not let it distract us from everything else the government is attempting

to do beginning with two bills in Congress that are being justified in the name of banning the social media app,

Tik-Tok, one called the Data Act, the other, the Restrict Act, that would in fact do far far more than just ban

Tik-Tok. They would empower both bills would the Biden administration then

future presidents to ban any social media app or platform if they

decide in their sole discretion that the app in some way poses a threat to national

security. Earlier this week Republican Senator Ran Paul of Kentucky blocked one such bill offered by Missouri

Senator Josh Holly and others that those senators hope to fast track with bipartisan support

and send to the White House with very little debate

or deliberation.

We'll report on the issues raised by that debate in the Senate and why Senator Paul opposed

this bill and why even if you were eager to banish

Tik-Tock from the United States high levels of skepticism and scrutiny are

urgent in the face of any attempts by the US government to claim the power to regulate and especially to ban the internet and entire social media platforms.

Then for our interview segment we'll speak with Darren Beatty, the independent

journalist at revolver news and the former Trump speech writer, about

those pending bills justified in the name of banning Tik-talk, as well as the

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