Glenn Beck does NOT support the TikTok ban. Here's why



Congress is debating a bill that would force the Chinese company that owns TikTok to either divest from the app or face a TikTok ban in America.

While the app itself has likely changed an entire generation for the worse, Glenn Beck is not a fan of the bill.

After going over the bill line by line with Chip Roy, who co-sponsored the bill, and Thomas Massie, who opposes it — Glenn says “there’s some disturbing things in there.”

One part of the bill is called “The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” which sounds good at face value but extends far beyond apps.

“Individual websites could also be seized,” Glenn says, pointing out that the term "foreign adversary" is a little vague.

“We have been accused of being controlled by Russia, Israel,” Glenn says.

Stu agrees, noting that in the section where the bill tries to define “foreign adversary,” the writers not only mention Chinese government-owned companies — or Chinese foreign nationals who report to the Chinese Communist Party — but also U.S. citizens who are “controlled by a foreign entity.”

According to the bill, a U.S. citizen could be “determined by the President to be a present threat to the National Security of the United States,” and thus in violation of the bill.

“Last year, we’ve heard ‘election deniers are a threat to our democracy.’ Vaccine deniers, Christian nationalists, climate deniers, all of these are a threat to National Security,” Glenn explains.

While those for the bill claim it would never be used against American citizens, Glenn isn’t so sure about that.

“This is all the stuff they said about the Patriot Act. It’ll never be used against you,” Glenn says, adding, “all they have to do is change the definition of extremist, and they can absolutely turn this on you.”


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Glenn: New TikTok filter could be DISASTROUS for society



TikTok has just released a new “Glamour” filter, and Glenn Beck is worried about what the consequences will be for young girls.

“The Chinese Government has just introduced a new filter on TikTok that’s going to be really good for all of us, especially our girls,” Glenn says sarcastically.

According to Glenn, the filter is making beautiful, average, and even not-so-good-looking women look like models.

Stu is also concerned about what this means for the youth, asking “What is this going to do to people?”

“Everyone’s going to want to look like this,” Stu adds, “especially when you have an entire society based around turning people into broadcasters.”

While Glenn says this could prove damaging to how those who use the filter are received, or view themselves, out in the real world, Stu says that it hardly matters.

“There is no out in public; there’s just this camera. There’s just the social media.”

Glenn calls it “hollow.”

“Let's say you become famous because you’re so beautiful, but you’re only beautiful in the virtual world and you get all kinds of attention and all kinds of love,” he says, “and you’re so hot and then you go out in the real world and you’re the dog-face boy. You’re not going to want to be out in public any more.”

Not only is this going to ruin the confidence of young women who use it, TikTok has already been a danger to Americans everywhere.

“When you have TikTok, correct me if I’m wrong, they monitor everything. So if you do your banking online, that’s all being sent to the Chinese communist government,” Glenn warns.

However, Stu says most people won’t care.

“A lot of people are like ‘Well, I don’t care, I never do anything that I would have a problem with, you know, the public or having the Chinese have access, I don’t do anything,’” he says.

“And I get that.”


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