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Digital Warfare: The Hidden Dangers of TikTok Data Collection | Dave Rubin DSH #954
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🚨 Digital warfare is real, and TikTok might be the battleground! 📱 Join Sean Kelly and Dave Rubin as they dive deep into the hidden dangers of data collection. 🕵️♂️ Discover why Dave won't put TikTok on his phone and hear his take on the app's potential security risks. But that's just the beginning! This episode is packed with insider insights on: • The future of social media platforms 🌐 • Elon Musk's impact on Twitter/X 🚀 • The evolution of gaming and its addictive nature 🎮 • Dave's journey from left to right in politics 🗳️ Plus, Dave shares some epic basketball stories and his thoughts on LeBron vs. Jordan! 🏀 Don't miss out on this eye-opening conversation. Watch now and subscribe for more Digital Social Hour content that'll keep you informed and entertained! 🔔 #DigitalSocialHour #DataPrivacy #TikTokSecurity #DaveRubin #SocialMedia #Gaming #Basketball #news #trump #foxbusiness #donaldtrump #foxnews CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 01:36 - Post-election happiness 06:35 - Dave Rubin's Political Shift 10:18 - Future Guests on Dave Rubin's Show 12:57 - Debate Frequency with Dave Rubin 13:32 - Dave Rubin's Locals Tech Platform 16:16 - Twitch Revenue Decline 18:07 - Alex Jones and Infowars Update 20:12 - Trump’s Social Media Platform Viability 22:38 - Dave Rubin's TikTok Perspective 25:15 - 23andMe and BlackRock Insights 26:40 - Government Competence Discussion 27:50 - Elon Musk's Influence 29:10 - Neuralink Considerations 31:50 - Basketball Insights 34:45 - Sports Discussion 42:25 - Video Games Overview 43:38 - Contra Analysis 47:58 - Original Wii Discussion 49:41 - Childhood Video Games 52:16 - Joe Rogan Experience (JRE) Mention 52:19 - Veteran Insights 53:38 - Where to Find Dave Rubin APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Dave Rubin https://www.instagram.com/rubinreport www.youtube.com/@RubinReport SPONSORS: BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com/DSH LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the hidden dangers of TikTok data collection?
Chapter 2: How has Dave Rubin's political perspective evolved?
Yeah. Something is not right over there. We're leveling up this time. We're over at the Fountain Blue. There we go. No wonder you haven't been back since. So that was your experience in Vegas.
It freaked me out. But I love, the funny thing is, I actually, I'm not a gambler, but I love casinos. I love the energy of it. I love the overstimulation. I love the scent. I love the, just, there's something about a casino. Everyone is just who they are when you're in a casino. You know what I mean? 27.
You do not remember, my friend, the 80s. And they're about to be back. And it was the best decade in American history. Certainly, you know. from any modern times at least, like there is going to be such a burst of culture and comedy and humor and movies and music, like all of the stuff that has been just so rotted and calcified and sucked for so long now, it's all coming back.
And the economy is going to boom and the world is going to get reordered politically. There's a lot of goodness coming. Not to say they don't have two months to really fuck up a lot of shit. Well, they're trying to put Kamala in. They're telling him to resign. Yeah.
They're trying to put her in. They're trying to start World War III. I mean, there's a lot of stuff that we're going to have to deal with until then. But I'm so bullish on the future of America right now. And had it gone the other way, no, no, no, no. Yeah, yeah. They might actually really start that war. It's looking really concerning, right?
Yeah. I mean, it's sick. Like, these people want to hold on to power in a way that they're literally –
now knowing they're losing power they're shooting we are now basically giving ukraine rockets to shoot further into russia than ever before at some point if you're russia you might say we're not going to take this anymore that's not making the case for russia or arguing for russia or anything else but it's just they're a sovereign nation too ukraine's a sovereign nation they're a sovereign nation if somebody was paying for cuba to shoot rockets into miami
I might be for destroying that place. Yeah. They're going to make it hard on Trump to negotiate because the more they attack him, I mean, the harder the negotiations are going to be.
Well, it feels right. I mean, that's the thing. It feels like they're thrown in the kitchen sink now. It's like, oh, Trump's going to come in and fix this real quick. Let's see how dirty we can make it, you know, before he gets in there. It's like they're sore losers, right? Yeah. Yeah. Not like it. They are sore losers. And then they blame the J6 incident that we're sore losers too.
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Chapter 3: What role does Elon Musk play in social media today?
where it was like, oh, the online thing doesn't mean we're all perfect at all of this, or there's all kinds of fault lines there too, but that the mainstream corporate press is dead and it needs to be buried, and we need to keep burying it. There's an inclination like, oh, they're losing numbers and everything else. Now just stop talking about them, stop paying attention.
But it's like Freddy Krueger. You've got to bury their bones a couple times first. Alternative media, I think, decided the outcome of this election.
Oh, I completely agree. I mean, that's I think this was the election over reality. It wasn't really people think it was Trump versus the Dems or Biden, Kamala, whatever it was, but it was reality. And I think they finally learned that enough of us had woken up to the bullshit. We had woken up to the bullshit around very fine people on both sides and all of the covid stuff and the Russia hoax.
And just enough of us were like, you know what? Enough of this. Enough of this BS. And the amount of people that I know in my personal life, I'm not even talking about my audience, in my own personal life who had absolute Trump derangement syndrome for the last eight years.
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who are now the biggest Trump supporters. I know at least a dozen people in my own personal life. And that tells you, you take a guy like Bobby Kennedy, should not be voting for a Republican. Tulsi should not announce that she's a Republican and be on stage with Trump. Elon should not be a Republican. I should not be a Republican if things were set in some kind of sane way. But here we are.
And again, I think this is now the greatest political movement that I've ever seen in my lifetime. Because it's not a conservative movement. It's an America movement. And we're going to fix the health system. The economy is going to start chugging. We've got some good stuff on the way. I'm excited. What was that final straw for you?
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Chapter 4: What insights did Dave Rubin share about video games?
So we had a bunch of producers and stuff. I go into the control room after.
and all the producers were like don't worry dave we'll cut that part out don't worry about it don't worry about it and you know sometimes in life you just say something you don't you don't even think about it you just say something and it's the right thing and it's and there's a reason it's right because it's true i was just like no we got to leave that in if i'm an interviewer i can't cut probably the most important part of the interview then what am i doing this for and we left it in and the next day you know a million it gets cut a zillion ways across youtube
And it's black conservative, destroys white libtard and all that. And it gets millions of views in many different iterations and across all platforms. And for a day I was like, man, this really sucks. And then I started looking at the comments and there were all these people like, hey, Ruben was listening and he said that they'd continue the conversation and everything else.
And then you flash forward five years and I'm on stage with Larry Elder when he's campaigning to be governor. during the Gavin Newsom recall. And he's a dear friend of mine now. And it's like, that's what a proper evolution is about. If you go towards the truth, good things will happen. Full circle moment. Yeah. 60 Minutes did not, or they did cut stuff out. You did not.
I just wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it. You know, I've done thousands of interviews at this point. We've, we've edited only one for content ever. And it was because somebody who named need not be mentioned, but who's a fairly big star, everyone watching this knows the person was so drunk and stoned that I actually felt it could like completely wreck their career in a, in a really terrible way.
So we added that one. And then beyond that, we've edited, you know, if somebody has like a coughing fit or like, So, you know, has to get up to go to the bathroom. But otherwise we just let it, we let it be and let the chips fall where they may. A hundred percent. I'm the same way. I've only edited if they asked, if they asked to cut something out. But other than that.
Have you had people ask because they want to cut out, like they said something wrong or they realized they stepped in some shit. Yeah, more like a PR thing. Like they announced something too early or like whatever.
So that type of thing, I wouldn't have an ethical problem with that. If it was like literally like, oh, I shouldn't, we're launching a product and I, you know, something like that, I wouldn't have a problem. If it was content, if it was specific content, I think I would have some sort of ethical dilemma or at least a discussion with them about it. I don't do as many live as I used to.
I used to do a ton of my interviews live stream. Now we do my daily show live stream and we do the interviews usually pre-taped. Um, more because of scheduling than anything else. You know what I mean? Like you just start doing this and just like you, you just finished up some stuff and then, you know, it just gets more complex to be doing it that way.
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Chapter 5: How does data collection influence our online behavior?
Well, I would like the government agencies to be reformed, which we are going to do. So he's going in not so RFK for sure is going to go in and he's not going in to make the government bigger for more control over the industries. He's going to try to hack away at the ridiculous protections they have and things like that. So in some sense, he's using the government to deregulate and deregulate.
Chapter 6: What is the significance of 23andMe's recent issues?
detangle us from the pharma companies. There are basic things that the government should do. Like for example, I actually am firmly for this, even though I don't like governmental solutions to most things. During COVID, you'd be watching Meet the Press and they'd be talking about the efficacy of mRNA vaccines and how great they are.
And then it would literally be like, and now a word from our sponsor, here's Pfizer. And it's like, wait, what? You mean the thing you were just talking about for half hours also paying for it? So like that type of thing, there's ways I think that the government could make that sort of thing illegal.
Maybe some other stuff with prescription drugs, which it's illegal to promote on commercials in most of Europe, but it's not here. But all of that comes down to, do we have a competent government? We really haven't for quite some time. We might be on the horizon. Absolutely. So you're a fan of the Doge movement?
Oh, yeah, they're going to go in and blow this thing apart. And I can't imagine two better people to do it. I mean, Elon's literally trying to get life to go interstellar. And then also he's buying Twitter to free our speech. And he's going to crush 300 government agencies and save two trillion dollars. And then a whole bunch of us are going to be like, boy, I can speak freely.
We're going to go to Mars. And, oh, the lefties who all think that the Earth is going to end in 12 years. It's like, dude, stop fighting with the guy who's trying to get us to other planets. I don't think the Earth is going to end in 12 years. I know it's not going to. But if you guys even believe it, you might not be arguing with the guy who's trying to send us to Mars.
And he's number one in Diablo. Just hit number one yesterday. Someone just told me that an hour ago. So he's literally – what does that mean? He's the number one – He beat the game in the quickest time ever recorded, an hour and 52 minutes. That is absolutely insane. How does he balance all this?
I have no – you know, I've met him a couple of times, and the guy – He's everywhere at once. The thing about him that I couldn't get over more than anything else was he was so hyper present when we met a few times. He's just there. He's just there.
But then he's also looking at a meme and laughing and talking business and talking about space and talking about homeless people over there when we were in San Francisco. Like a thousand things at once. I don't know. Did he lodge Neuralink in there? He might have the Neuralink in there, right? It could be like the beginning of Green Goblin, you know? Would you ever get a Neuralink?
You know, I'm a big sci-fi guy. My whole worldview has probably been shaped by dystopian movies, whether it's Minority Report or Total Recall or Scanner Darkly, or I could go Matrix, the laundry list of things. I love the idea of the future and the horizon that we're going into and all of that stuff. I'm going to be, let's say, a little hesitant to directly connect myself.
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