Hello everybody and thank you for tuning into the Liberty Report. Dr. Paul is off today,

so I will be handling your morning entertainment. A couple of things that we want to talk

about this morning. The first one we've talked about a lot, and someone said we've talked about it too much,

which is the issue of TikTok. The attempt by Congress to pass a law to ban this app, the social

media app that people use to make videos and to communicate with each other, and the reaction

by a lot of Americans who enjoy the product, millions and millions of course.

And then just on the eve, when the ban was supposed to go into

effect, President Trump through an executive order gave it a bit longer of a lease on

life, about 75 more days if I'm not mistaken. And people say, why are you focusing, why

do you keep focusing on this? Because there's something deeply anti-American about the

idea that you can demonize a form of communication

to the point where people are scrambling to say, well, we need to ban it. We need to ban it.

And that's what's happened. And there's also some of the worst aspects of prejudice involved.

The Chinese are using it to corrupt our precious bodily fluids. It's all sort of

harkens back to this Cold War issue. And the whole thing is premised on a fallacy in the first place.

You know, the idea is that the CCP, those evil Chinese communists, are using this app where kids

dance and communicate and do other things.

First of all, to indoctrinate them to what? To become communist? I mean, I don't see there's any big move to kids becoming communist.

To what end? They're stealing their data. To what end? What are they going to do with the data on millions of

young Americans? It just, it doesn't make any rational sense. But the worst aspect of it really

is this sort of red scare. Well, the news today is it looks like Microsoft is in talks to purchase

TikTok. Now, the owners of TikTok TikTok and we'll get into this in a

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