Trump Announces Plan for Hollywood; SCOTUS Rules 9-0 on TikTok Ban
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Hollywood hasn’t been doing so well. Many of the major planned blockbusters have fallen flat, and some have blamed this on things like social justice and other issues that have steered Hollywood more toward policies than toward creating good movies.
President-elect Donald Trump is now saying he hopes to create a new “Golden Age of Hollywood,” and to do this, he announced the appointment of actors Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone to become special ambassadors to Hollywood.
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| 0:00.0 | The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled 9 to 0 to uphold the ban on TikTok unless |
| 0:07.4 | the Chinese owner bite dance divest from the app. |
| 0:10.7 | In other news, President-elect Donald Trump is now announcing that he hopes to restore the |
| 0:14.4 | golden age of Hollywood. |
| 0:16.6 | And to do this, he announced the appointments of actors John Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone |
| 0:22.1 | to become special ambassadors to Hollywood. And also as law enforcement agencies start to rely |
| 0:28.1 | more on technologies like artificial intelligence and facial recognition, while it seems also |
| 0:33.7 | this is leading to errors. People are allegedly facing charges for crimes they did not |
| 0:39.1 | commit. I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip and you're listening to |
| 0:44.0 | Crossroads. |
| 0:50.5 | The TikTok ban looks like it's going through. The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled 9 to 0 to uphold the ban on TikTok unless |
| 1:00.6 | his Chinese owner bite dance divests from the app. |
| 1:04.5 | And remember back in April last year, President Joe Biden signed into law the protecting |
| 1:09.6 | Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications |
| 1:12.5 | Act, which gave TikTok's parent company ByteDance 270 days to divest from the app or face a ban from |
| 1:22.2 | the app stores in the United States. |
| 1:24.2 | Well, that deadline is just about here. |
| 1:27.4 | D-Day is going to be this Sunday, |
| 1:29.3 | the day before Trump's inauguration. And SCOTUS has now ruled, and they're siding with the Biden |
| 1:34.8 | administration saying that the divest or ban law does not violate the First Amendment. Epic Times |
| 1:41.9 | said this. Chief Justice John Roberts said Congress specifically |
| 1:45.8 | found that bite dance cooperates with China, meaning the Chinese regime, in manipulating content, |
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