Minds Founder Bill Ottman on "Sneaky" TikTok Ban

Um You know , and we're starting to see some of that happen . But the thing is you can't know with these proprietary apps because they're just not sharing anything . I think one of the problems that people have with uh whether any kind of decentralized um app like yours or any other de decentralized uh social media network is that people immediately go , oh , what , what do I have to do to do this ?

Minds Founder Bill Ottman on "Sneaky" TikTok Ban

I mean , like , how do we know that Facebook and Google ? Just because they're us based , doesn't mean that they're not giving data to China . We have no idea , we have no idea .

Minds Founder Bill Ottman on "Sneaky" TikTok Ban

So we would have to , we would , they would force us to write a policy on hate speech and submit it to them . And then additionally , we , we would have to on like a biannual basis , submit analytics about all of our moderation data which honestly we're already transparent about our moderation data . So that's , that's largely public .

Minds Founder Bill Ottman on "Sneaky" TikTok Ban

So it is , it's targeted at social media companies . So basically mandating that social media companies have the submit these policies . So we would have to , we would , they would force us to write a policy on hate speech and submit it to them .

Minds Founder Bill Ottman on "Sneaky" TikTok Ban

So there's all of these different instances with different URL S and there's like 20 people on each one . And you know , but there is sort of some interoperability between the instances because that you , you can subscribe to somebody on another instance from your instance , but it's not fully decentralized , it's Federated . And the problem is that you don't own your identity .