Isabel Brown
Appearances
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
well the truth is charlie we wouldn't be preparing for a trump inauguration in just over a week if it weren't for tick tock it has been astounding to see the impact that that campaign had on one social media platform in fact according to tick tock employees trump is outperforming his performance on every other social media platform on tick tock by a factor of five so he's five times more impactful
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
But of that nearly 200 million Americans that you just mentioned that use the platform every single day, about 70% of those individuals are Generation Z, are this next great generation that we're starting to see become overwhelmingly conservative, largely because of accounts like yours, Donald Trump's, and so many others engaging with young people in an authentic, honest conversation that feels a lot more tangible and accessible on TikTok than it does on Meta or YouTube per se.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
What's been really fascinating this last week is that there's been a much larger conversation opening up related to free speech on social media, not just from the First Amendment perspective, but from content policy and moderation perspectives, too. In fact, Mark Zuckerberg just said they're backtracking on meta to get rid of fact checkers and censorship programs.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
of conservative ideas, largely because of TikTok. Now, I know we've all had our frustrations with certain censorship issues and accounts getting shut down over the last several years, but I've been screaming from the rooftops for about a year and a half that only one platform has been regularly reaching out to myself
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
and other conservative creators to insist that we have a home on their platform, and that is TikTok. Frankly, the only reason that these conservative values are becoming trendy and cool again is because young people are confronting them where they are in a language they understand.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
I absolutely do, Charlie, namely because this is a matter of First Amendment freedom of expression rights for all American citizens.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
I'd be really curious to hear everything that was said in the oral arguments today, but I do know this free speech angle was of the utmost importance for TikTok's legal team and I'm sure will be based in existing Supreme Court precedent from a case back in the 1960s called Lamont v. Postmaster General.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
way back then american citizens wanted to receive propaganda that the united states government had deemed to be against national security from the then communist party of russia and ultimately it was determined that your free speech rights in america don't just protect what you say out loud but also protect what the supreme court called your right to receive
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
So when our federal government, namely Congress, from a bipartisan perspective, is making the argument that this is against the issues of national security currently occupied by the White House and by those on Capitol Hill, they're really ignoring this right to receive that Americans have baked into our Constitution to not just say something that might be unpopular, but to hear a difference of opinion as well.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
Oh, it can't be underscored, Charlie. There are quite literally millions of American small businesses that have been built up thanks to TikTok alone in this post-COVID era that would essentially cease to exist almost instantaneously. Some economists are projecting this could yield a massive unemployment rise.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
for Donald Trump taking office a week from Monday and would be catastrophic to the American economy. So that is certainly a concern. But as for this idea of American data, you know, I still have a very hard time believing that the true intention behind this law was to protect Americans data. First and foremost, if this law is upheld by the Supreme Court,
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
They are still allowed to hold on to nearly 200 million Americans data after TikTok ceases to operate in the United States. So that data is just already out there. And we have countless documented examples of Meta selling your data to China, Russia and the U.S. government alike. Mark Zuckerberg admitted today on Joe Rogan that the Biden administration.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
forced them to censor certain content and to provide American data to the federal government. Airbnb has been known to sell your data to the Chinese Communist Party. So I don't really think that's what's happening here.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
When you see this rare, bipartisan, overwhelming support happening on Capitol Hill from people who can't even agree on what the definition of a woman is, the hair on the back of my neck begins to stand up asking, what's really the impetus for this? And I think so much of it has to do... with the free conversations happening on the platform.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
Oh, it would be an endless win, Charlie. And I'm highly encouraging the president to do so, not just to protect this red wave conservative movement we're seeing happen with young people, but to continue encouraging conservative values to thrive across Western civilization. This isn't just protecting free speech and the exchange of ideas for American citizens, but young people everywhere.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
And I'm incredibly excited to see where the movement goes.