California congressman Devin Nunes weighs in on Big Tech facing allegations of political bias on ‘Fox & Friends Weekend.’
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Were not planning on going
were not planning on going
anywhere?
We appreciate the support
were here for the long run
and continue to share your voice
here and lets dance to Tiktok
when it comes to safety and
security were building the
safest app.
We know its the right thing to
do.
Jillian
Jedediah, Tiktok executives,
saying theyre not going
anywhere
lets bring in congressman Devin
Nunes to weigh in on that.
Do you think tick Toke should be
tiktok should be banned,
absolutely
go back to twenty. Sixteen
remember. We were concerned about
foreign influence in our
election.
We spent tens of millions of
dollars to discover on Facebook
that the Russians had spent
millions of dollars that went
against Trump went for Trump
Tiktok is from China.
Any company thats in China
over fifty percent of it is owned by the
Chinese Communist Party.
If you want your data, your
its data, all of that
information to end up in the
hands of the Chinese, not to
mention the fact what, if the
Chinese decide to run a
propaganda operation into this
years, election,
that would be very, very
disturbing and we would have
zero control over it.
We wouldnt be able to do an
investigation.
They wouldnt turn over any
information,
so theres a reason why the
indian government has banned
this
theres a reason why our defense
department is not letting our
military men and women in
uniform use this,
and I think for one we should
all, as Americans not be using an
app like this
PETE were going to get in a
moment to the type of bias we
see from american tech companies
against conservatives.
Imagine what the communist
Chinese can would and will do
wielding the same power.
Some people have. This is not
what its about for President
Trump,
but some people have opined
about video. Whether or not this
have an influence on voters in
two thousand and twenty
young people that use Tiktok.
You think there would be enough
information about why it should
be banned,
theres only one person that is
tough on the Communist Chinese,
who have a different dream than
we do. It has nothing to do with
freedom.
Look PETE one thing I
havent heard this has been
out for forty eight hours and youve
heard the Secretary of State
Pompeo hes been talking about
this for several weeks.
What have we not heard?
We havent heard a peep from the
Biden campaign.
We havent heard anything from
the Democrat leadership in the
House or the Senate.
I think thats very, very
telling,
for whatever reason, theyre
scared to take on the Chinese
Communist Party.
I dont know why,
but I know that Donald Trump and
Republicans are willing to do
it.
Griff congressman. Let me pick
up what PETE was talking about
on Wednesday, the heads of
Amazon, Google, Facebook all
taking a brow beating from both
sides of the aisle. Really you
had the issue of silencing
censoring conservative voices.
You had experience personally in
this yourself firsthand.
So what now?
What comes out of that hearing
we saw?
Will they be with thrill, be
recommendations?
Will there be laws?
Well, look the easy thing to
do would be to pass and change
the law, so they cant censor us,
but you have to remember the
censoring always goes against
conservatives.
So the only thing we can do
between now and the election
and what I like to call this.
This is a you, have ninety percent of the
content being shoveled through
this disinformation funnel that
ends up right here on our
devices.
So what I tell people is you
really have to practice good
hygiene,
and that means that you have to
join places like parler, which is
essentially like an instagram
and twitter combo thats, a
great company to be a part of.
I try to not do anything on
Youtube.
Now, theres, a channel called
rumble,
so its learning the sites that
arent going to steal your data
arent going to censor your
content, especially skeans sore
conservatives, censor
conservatives thats my
recommendations to the viewers
out there today
Jedediah. What do you say to
those that acknowledge the
problem of big tech, potentially
silences conservatives, but are
worried about big government
coming in and potentially
censors big tech?
Well, look. The challenge is,
we have given them. The
government has given them a
really good deal that I think, is
being abused, and I think the
court should step in and not
give them this good deal.
So in fact its the opposite.
These guys get a special deal
because of the government that,
for example, you dont get
theres certain things that you
cant say right now on the air,
because your company would get
in trouble,
but yet the internet companies
can skeans sore and do censor
and do whatever they want.
Tiktok can do whatever they want,
because theyre housed in China
thats going to be the problem
moving forward.
We cant have tech companies,
big tech, oligarchs that control,
so much of our daily lives have
a special deal that most
Americans dont enjoy.
Pete tech companies believe
they can have it both ways. They
can be neutral platforms, also
publishers and have consequences
for neither
thats. What a lot of folks are.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-02.