Minds Founder Bill Ottman on "Sneaky" TikTok Ban

So that's really the issue . We need to understand what specifically are all of these apps doing . They should be labeled very specifically .

Minds Founder Bill Ottman on "Sneaky" TikTok Ban

However , this is the wrong conversation . It's not the existence or even rise of hate in the presence of that content on an app is not , you're not just trying to ban hate . Banning hate does not stop hate .

Minds Founder Bill Ottman on "Sneaky" TikTok Ban

Are the once see tiktok's actually not named in that act . They're just letting the Secretary of Commerce decide which apps . That's insane .

Minds Founder Bill Ottman on "Sneaky" TikTok Ban

You know , that's what was so sneaky is , you know , they , they enrage you to then support this disaster . Um And it's just like we , we can all agree that there's a problem with Tik Tok and that there's , you know , the Chinese government having access to all of this data is , is problematic , but like there should be an encrypt act like encrypt everything but you can't go around banning apps , it just doesn't work . It's irrelevant .

Minds Founder Bill Ottman on "Sneaky" TikTok Ban

He , he , he thinks it's not that big a deal because he thinks that , you know , there's a lot of uh acts that get pushed and then they never get passed through . But what's disturbing is just the idea , the desire to do this and the fact that it imagine if it did get passed . I mean , it's just a , a fucking full on assault on free speech .