Rep. Gallagher: This bill is about foreign adversary control of a social media company. скачать в хорошем качестве

Rep. Gallagher: This bill is about foreign adversary control of a social media company.

On March 14th, Rep. Gallagher and Senator Tom Cotton joined Laura Ingraham on ‪@FoxNews‬ to discuss Rep. Gallagher's bipartisan TikTok bill that would force a separation of TikTok from its CCP-controlled parent company ByteDance. The two discussed the bills passage in the House, and as Senator Cotton said, "it should be taken up immediately in the Senate." Read highlights of the conversation below. Laura Ingraham: Are you surprised that so many on the right are making the argument that this is just going to give the government the opportunity to ban conservative websites or other other websites, on protectoral grounds that we can't trust the government in this case, even though it involves China? Rep. Gallagher: Well, as a conservative, I don't start from a place of trusting the government, which is why we crafted this bill so narrowly so that it could not be used in order to give the executive branch authority to go after any individual in America, or any American company. I get it. Our social media companies are a woke disaster as well, but this bill is about foreign adversary control of what is increasingly the dominant news platform in America. These people are arguing against a bill that does not exist, there is no authority in this bill that would allow the executive branch to go after an American company. The other lie that TikTok has been telling is that this is somehow about free speech. It is absolutely not. It is about foreign adversary control of a social media company, and therefore the ability of a foreign adversary to inject dangerous propaganda into the minds and into the phones of millions of Americans. And I have to give credit to Senator Cotton who was at the forefront of illuminating the dangers posed by CCP control of TikTok and we would not be where we are today were it not for his leadership. Laura Ingraham: But Senator Cotton. we're even seeing this in our school systems, as you pointed out... Is it tutor.com tutoring.com which is a Chinese based tutor.com. And it's being used by Northern Virginia public school systems. We find out it's essentially a Chinese firm that is collecting all sorts of data. It's owned by the Primavera Capital Group, which is a Chinese investment firm. Senator Cotton: Yeah, it's owned by this group that has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party. It's not just public schools Laura, It's our own department of defense. You know, I demanded answers from the Department of Defence recently. We haven't gotten satisfactory answers yet. But I find it hard to imagine we're going to get satisfactory answers. Why would our department defense be using a Chinese own tutoring site for service members or families? When it puts at risk the data and the privacy of all of our troops and their families, there's more than enough American tutoring services that our own government, especially our own military should be using? We shouldn't be using one with close ties to Chinese communists. // Subscribe to Rep. Gallagher's Channel!    / @mikegallagher3103   Subscribe to Rep. Gallagher's Newsletter! https://gallagher.house.gov/contact/n... Congressman Mike Gallagher has represented Wisconsin’s 8th District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2017. Mike was born and raised in Green Bay, where he now lives with his wife Anne and two daughters. Mike served for seven years on active duty in the United States Marine Corps, including two deployments to Iraq. Mike also served as the lead Republican staffer for the Middle East and Counterterrorism on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and worked in the private sector at an energy and supply chain management company in Green Bay. Mike currently serves as Chairman of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, as Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation, and on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. From 2019-2021 he served as Co-Chairman of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. For more information visit: https://gallagher.house.gov Follow Rep. Gallagher on Twitter:   / repgallagher   Follow Rep. Gallagher on Facebook:   / repmikegallagher   Follow Rep. Gallagher on Instagram:   / repgallagher