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IS TIKTOK CENSORING CHINA & WEST PHILIPPINE SEA CONTENT!???
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00:00.0
Thank you for watching!
00:30.0
Yung isa pang influencer, of course, who made a big rise during the election period for his no-nonsense conversations on Philippine politics.
00:39.2
Bitcoin guy, motivational speaker, if I'm not mistaken, reality show guy din back in the day.
00:45.5
Anyway, I was hoping to talk to him about a number of issues including how is it to be a Chinoy,
00:53.2
how does he deal with anti-China sentiments, and of course the unfortunate xenophobia and unfortunate racism
00:59.1
against even our fellow Chinoy brothers and sisters, etc.
01:03.4
And then ito, uminit na talagang ulo ko kasi ito mga kameta, since Tuesday, may pinupost tayo.
01:10.6
If you look at my Instagram, if you look at my Twitter, if you look at my Facebook,
01:16.7
marami tayong mga pinupost ukol sa West Philippine Sea throughout the week,
01:20.8
obviously because of the latest developments that has been taking place there.
01:25.2
Essentially the double whammy bullying na nangyari.
01:29.3
One is water canoning once again, but this time differently because on Jan. C. General Bronner,
01:34.1
the AFP chief of staff was there aboard the Philippine vessel,
01:37.8
and you had this in-your-face bullying by China.
01:40.8
But at the same time, of course, yung Atento Christmas convoy was also turned back
01:46.1
or they were forced to turn back after being intimidated by China.
01:48.6
So obviously, tensions are really, really high in the West Philippine Sea over the Ayungin Shoal,
01:54.2
over the harassment and intimidation of our civil society convoy.
01:59.3
Christmas convoy going there.
02:00.8
So obviously, you can imagine that I'm going to post stuff, right?
02:03.7
And I have been coordinating very closely with my, you know, quote-unquote production team
02:10.1
to get things out, to get the shorts out.
02:12.8
So I made a number of shorts, no?
02:14.9
That are pertinent to the disputes in the West Philippine Sea.
02:17.3
One of them is by, is a kind of a snippet of my interview with Senator Rafi Tulfo.
02:24.6
I interviewed him the other week about the West Philippine Sea issue.
02:27.8
And as you can see, you can actually,
02:29.1
you can find it there on Twitter.
02:31.2
More than 100,000 views already siya on Twitter.
02:34.2
Not bad, considering Twitter is really pro-pink.
02:37.6
And maraming ayaw kay, you know, Rafi Tulfo or mga DDS and all of that.
02:42.2
So we saw a lot of people actually appreciating that, that video snippet.
02:47.1
Yeah, it's not easy.
02:48.1
I had to, you know, go through the whole production process
02:50.8
to make sure we get a decent short out of that part
02:53.3
when he talks about bullying West Philippine Sea.
02:55.5
I also had another snippet taken out of my vlog.
02:59.1
Last week, when I was in Singapore for the Stockholm China Forum.
03:03.8
It's about my analysis of, you know,
03:06.3
what Duterte got wrong in his policy towards China
03:09.3
and how we should deal with China.
03:11.1
So I have a couple of stuff that I wanted to post
03:13.5
relevant to the West Philippine Sea issue.
03:15.8
And of course, very timely considering what's happening
03:17.9
in the West Philippine Sea over the past few days.
03:20.3
But for some reason,
03:23.0
I have been uploading five, six, seven times
03:26.1
two or three different videos per time.
03:29.1
And I've been posting them to the West Philippine Sea.
03:30.8
Then I go back to the screen after hours,
03:33.0
still zero views, zero something.
03:35.2
And that sounds fishy now, of course.
03:37.6
That's why, Dunsamang haters, check it out, right?
03:41.0
You know, we have a number of videos there on my TikTok
03:43.3
that get half a million views, right?
03:46.3
You know, we had just another video of all sorts of us
03:49.5
that went viral.
03:50.5
This is about my Shakespearean analogy
03:53.4
for what's happening between UNITEAM.
03:55.4
I also posted the Game of Thrones UNITEAM
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implosion that also got tens of thousands of views.
04:02.5
And then suddenly, zero, zero, zero, zero.
04:05.7
So very suspicious, right?
04:07.3
So I go and post it again and then go back.
04:09.7
Again, zero, zero.
04:11.0
So what I did was, obviously,
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hindi ako tanga, di ba?
04:15.0
Sorry.
04:16.0
Given the situation that I faced,
04:18.2
given the nature of my job,
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obviously, I don't use TikTok on my normal phones.
04:21.9
So I have a burner phone, semi-burner phone.
04:24.6
Not that cheap, right?
04:25.7
So I had to get a different phone for my TikTok.
04:28.2
And I suggest you guys,
04:29.1
if you're having sensitive conversation and all,
04:31.1
make sure you turn off the phone or put it away.
04:33.3
Very much away from the rest of your self
04:36.3
and sensitive communication.
04:38.9
So I have a phone that I just put TikTok here.
04:41.1
It's just for my TikTok.
04:42.6
All right?
04:44.1
And then, of course, I also do my spiritual apps
04:48.1
and all of what here.
04:49.2
They can spy on my spirituality all they want.
04:51.6
I don't care, right?
04:54.0
So, yeah, okay.
04:55.5
You can check Bible and everything.
04:56.9
So I have one separate.
04:59.1
I have one separate phone, really, for TikTok.
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And then, you know, I put my chat GPT here.
05:04.3
I put all of the other apps that I'm not 100% sure about.
05:06.7
So this is not, this is the non-clean phone, right?
05:09.5
Digitally speaking, it's not the most hygienic ones.
05:12.0
So, you know, I'm not stupid.
05:14.1
So I obviously, given the nature of my work,
05:16.0
I don't put it on my normal phones.
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So, you know, I go back to it after every few hours or so
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because it's not my primary phone.
05:22.3
It's not even my secondary phone.
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It's like my whatever phone, right?
05:24.9
So I go out, it keeps on getting zero.
05:26.9
Keeps on getting zero.
05:27.5
So now I said,
05:28.1
maybe there's something wrong with my account, right?
05:30.8
Maybe there's something wrong with my account.
05:33.6
Or there's something wrong with uploading.
05:35.6
So I use, I upload it at home.
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I upload it in mall.
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I upload it through my other phone.
05:40.1
Ganun pa rin. Zero pa rin.
05:41.4
Then I said, you know what?
05:42.2
Let's do a test.
05:43.3
Let's do a test.
05:44.4
So what I'm gonna do is
05:45.4
I'm gonna post something that is not related to the West Philippine Sea
05:48.1
because mukhang, you never know.
05:49.9
If this is a censorship case, probably it's automatic, right?
05:52.6
Meaning, it's not anything I posted.
05:54.6
Probably things that are related to West Philippine Sea.
05:56.9
So I post it.
05:58.1
I reposted yung Game of Thrones 1.
06:01.4
Within seconds, it has already views.
06:03.5
I said, okay, interesting.
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Then I posted again.
06:06.7
As you can see, dalawang doble back to back.
06:09.3
Ang tagal na yan.
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Ilang oras na yan.
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Posted them again.
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Wala naman views.
06:12.7
So I said, I'll post something else again
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na not related sa West Philippine Sea.
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So I posted yung snippet ng interview ko
06:17.9
with Senator Laila de Lima
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about, you know, how she overcame
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the trials, tribulations.
06:25.7
Ayan, may views na naman kagat.
06:27.3
So,
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this is weird.
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This is suspicious
06:29.8
to put it mildly.
06:31.9
So all of the things
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that hindi related sa West Philippine Sea,
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immediately.
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And in fact, this is an interesting one.
06:36.6
So let me show you.
06:37.6
When I logged out,
06:39.1
well, you know,
06:40.1
so naka-login ako dito.
06:42.0
Login ako dito sa phone na yan.
06:43.2
So,
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I tried to check TikTok from another phone.
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Let's say clean one.
06:49.3
To see my account.
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And then I checked my account.
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Apparently,
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on my screen,
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it shows as published.
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But if you look at it from outside,
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it's not published at all.
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It's not published at all.
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Right?
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So,
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parang deceptive to.
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So to me,
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it shows na wala.
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Walang interesado.
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Zero lang views mo.
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Right?
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Well, I mean,
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you know,
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yung mga bobo dyan na gusto magsabi,
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okay, kasi baka siguro walang interesado.
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Come on.
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Anything I posted at least gets a few thousand views.
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Right?
07:16.4
Some got half a million views.
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Right?
07:19.7
Now, obviously,
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I'm not very active on TikTok
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because it's on my like whatever phone.
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Right?
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I have so many other things to take care of.
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So, you know,
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I gave it four or five shots.
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And then,
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to test the system,
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if this is really an automatic censorship or whatever,
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or shadow banning,
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I posted unrelated stuff,
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immediately it's okay.
07:37.1
Immediately it's okay.
07:38.2
And then, as I said,
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if you sign out
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and then you check the TikTok on your own,
07:42.2
so I'll show you here on the screen,
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it's not even published.
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So, it's deceptively showing it's published on my site,
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but actually it's not published at all.
07:51.3
Kaya pala zero.
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Right?
07:52.7
So, this is my account.
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You can check it for yourself.
07:54.6
So, this is,
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this is an interesting,
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interesting situation, right?
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Whereby,
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there's not even a sophistication here.
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There's not even a subtlety here.
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Something,
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something is going on
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and it's pretty obvious.
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Right?
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And, you know,
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they're dealing with someone like me
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who's by nature very suspicious.
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Right?
08:11.2
By nature is very,
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you know,
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always looks at protocols.
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You know,
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I have to have multiple phones.
08:16.8
Now,
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kaya nga,
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again,
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you know,
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yung mga nagsasabi dyan na,
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oh, but this is a,
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you know,
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China-owned whatever.
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Yeah, yeah, of course.
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Kaya nga,
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I don't put it on my normal phone.
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But,
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I would have expected,
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uh,
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a kind of a,
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you know,
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internationally,
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supposedly important social media,
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the new national digital champion of China,
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that to be a little bit subtle about this.
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But there's no subtlety about this.
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This is really weird.
08:40.1
Zero views,
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hours,
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days after,
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anything else I post,
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my views na kagad.
08:44.6
Right?
08:44.9
And then you go outside
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and then you post,
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it's not even published.
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From the,
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you know,
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so from my,
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so from inside,
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it makes it look as if it's published,
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but no one is interested.
08:54.7
From outside,
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it's not even published.
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So obviously,
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that's why zero views.
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I mean,
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it's so hard to get zero views on Twitter,
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on TikTok,
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I'm sorry.
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Right?
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Especially when you have tens of thousands of likes
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and hundreds of thousands,
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I'm sorry,
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tens of thousands of followers
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and hundreds of thousands of likes already.
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I'm not even active on TikTok that much.
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I post here and then
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because I just have so much other things to do
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aside from,
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you know,
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dabbling in China-owned,
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China-based,
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uh,
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social media.
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And,
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you know,
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TikTok was always
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tricky for me
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because
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I know what people,
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right?
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They use TikTok for posting dance
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and whatever.
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Like,
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I'm a good dancer,
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okay?
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I mean,
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some of you may have seen some of my moves,
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but that's not what I'm interested here.
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I realize that TikTok
09:38.0
is really the way to reach out
09:39.4
to the younger audience
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and also another way of,
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you know,
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getting the message out,
09:44.2
including on platforms
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not owned by Western American tech companies.
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So,
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you know,
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I'm open-minded about it
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and at the same time,
09:51.3
eyes wide open.
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I know what's going on here,
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right?
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And we know that there are a lot of stories
09:55.4
of them being caught,
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you know,
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doing,
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jumbo mumbo jumbo.
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That's why discussions of
09:59.2
banning of TikTok
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came into being.
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But,
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you know,
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like,
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this is a bit too brazen.
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There's not even subtlety.
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You know,
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I have friends who have been
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posting on Instagram,
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et cetera,
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about another ongoing conflict.
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You can guess which conflict that is
10:11.7
and they're discussing
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potential shadow ban
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or et cetera.
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But there's some subtlety to that.
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There's some plausible deniability.
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This one is weird.
10:19.9
Like,
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like,
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exactly this week,
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when I post anything about
10:24.3
West Philippine Sea,
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it's not even published.
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Right?
10:27.6
But on my site,
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it shows as if
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it is published
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but it's like
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zero views and all.
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And I,
10:32.2
and just to shut down
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you haters
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and I'm sorry,
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like,
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look at my other posts.
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You know,
10:37.0
we have posts that get
10:37.7
half a million views.
10:38.5
So this is not about
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no one being interested.
10:40.4
This is about
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no one being able to see it at all
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because it's not being published
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but deceptively,
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it makes it look
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as if it were published
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if you look at it
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on your registered account.
10:49.6
From the outside,
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there's nothing there.
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Alright?
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So,
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this is,
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this is serious.
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You know why this is serious?
10:55.7
Because this is a matter
10:56.3
of national security.
10:56.8
If a major,
10:59.3
if a major,
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I mean,
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TikTok is so big already
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in the Philippines right now.
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If,
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if a major platform,
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right,
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that,
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that,
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ang lakas ng hatak
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because, you know,
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we know with TikTok,
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you know,
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they provide all of these,
11:12.1
they're kind of like,
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you know,
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they're like,
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you know,
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they know how to get people in.
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I mean,
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you go on TikTok,
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there are all of these
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reward systems.
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It's so easy for anyone
11:22.5
to go viral on TikTok.
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It's a very democratic,
11:25.1
progressive one
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in a sense.
11:26.8
But at the same time,
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it's,
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we know what's going on here,
11:28.9
right?
11:29.2
So,
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so I,
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I'm just trying to pull out
11:32.4
this one so that
11:33.2
you can see.
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I mean,
11:38.2
it's,
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it's really,
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no,
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my point is,
11:41.5
this is a matter
11:42.0
of national security
11:43.0
because
11:43.4
we have one of the major
11:45.5
platforms in the country
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either personally
11:49.0
targeting people like me
11:50.3
who are outspoken,
11:52.1
quote-unquote,
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influencers.
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I would rather be called
11:54.4
an expert,
11:55.3
but I don't mind
11:56.1
if you call me
11:56.6
influencer
11:57.0
because,
11:57.4
you know,
11:58.1
our posts on West Philippine,
11:59.8
South China Sea,
12:00.3
we,
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you know,
12:01.0
we get,
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you know,
12:01.8
millions of engagement online
12:03.0
every,
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every month
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on different platforms,
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right?
12:05.9
And this is a bread and butter issue,
12:07.7
right?
12:08.0
So,
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so,
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so if,
12:12.1
if people like yours truly
12:13.5
are just going to be censored
12:14.6
like this,
12:15.4
then you can imagine
12:16.7
what kind of voices
12:17.3
are going to be amplified there,
12:18.7
right?
12:18.8
It's going to be voice
12:19.4
that actually echo
12:21.5
the propaganda line.
12:23.5
And,
12:24.3
you know,
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it's one thing
12:26.5
for,
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for,
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you know,
12:27.5
for,
12:27.7
for Americans to,
12:28.8
you know,
12:29.1
for,
12:29.3
for some Americans to say,
12:30.2
oh,
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you know,
12:30.7
TikTok is abetting
12:32.4
the China line
12:33.2
on conflict X,
12:34.2
Y,
12:34.4
and Z
12:34.7
thousands of miles away.
12:36.8
Now,
12:37.1
what we're talking about here
12:38.6
is potentially,
12:40.0
I'm not saying this is the case,
12:41.2
we have to,
12:41.8
okay,
12:42.0
I'm saying we have to have
12:43.0
a proper investigation.
12:44.7
The Philippine Senate,
12:45.7
what on earth
12:46.3
are you guys doing?
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All right?
12:47.9
Do something about this.
12:48.8
This is a national security issue.
12:50.2
If a major platform
12:51.5
in the country
12:52.0
that has access
12:52.9
to the data
12:54.2
of millions of Filipinos
12:55.5
throughout the day,
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right,
12:57.4
and then,
12:58.4
for some reason,
12:59.2
they're actually engaged
13:00.6
in targeting people
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who are
13:02.2
West Philippine Sea
13:03.5
experts and influencers,
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those who are exposing
13:05.6
Chinese bullying,
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those who are exposing
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the propaganda,
13:08.7
if these people
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are deceptively
13:11.1
made to think
13:12.1
that their posts
13:12.9
are posted
13:13.5
and no one is interested
13:14.7
in them,
13:15.4
but in fact,
13:15.9
if you look at from outside,
13:17.0
actually,
13:17.3
it's not there.
13:18.4
So,
13:18.9
I logged out
13:19.8
of my TikTok,
13:20.7
or actually,
13:21.1
no,
13:21.2
I checked on a different phone,
13:22.5
TikTok,
13:22.9
I didn't download it,
13:24.0
I just say,
13:24.5
it's not even published.
13:26.2
So,
13:26.3
on my side,
13:26.9
it says it's published,
13:28.1
except no one is interested,
13:30.2
but on the other side,
13:30.9
it's not even published,
13:31.7
that's why it's zero,
13:32.5
right?
13:33.3
And again,
13:33.6
to just shut down idiots there,
13:35.0
you know,
13:35.2
you can check it,
13:36.0
our other posts there,
13:37.2
right,
13:37.4
like they get
13:37.9
100,000 views,
13:39.3
million views,
13:39.9
half a million,
13:40.4
so,
13:41.1
it's so hard
13:42.7
not to get any views
13:43.7
on TikTok,
13:44.4
right,
13:44.8
considering how,
13:46.2
quote,
13:46.3
unquote,
13:46.9
inclusive
13:47.4
its algorithm is.
13:49.7
Its algorithm,
13:50.5
by nature,
13:51.5
tries to be
13:52.2
much more prone
13:53.3
to virality
13:53.9
than any other platform.
13:55.3
I know that
13:55.8
because I'm,
13:56.3
active on multiple platforms,
13:57.5
so,
13:57.6
I compare them.
13:59.0
I can see
13:59.6
what ticks
14:00.2
the algorithm
14:01.9
on YouTube
14:02.5
versus what ticks
14:03.3
the algorithm
14:03.8
on Twitter
14:04.4
versus what ticks
14:05.2
the algorithm
14:05.7
on Facebook,
14:06.3
and I realize
14:06.9
TikTok is next level.
14:09.6
So,
14:09.7
to get zero views
14:10.7
throughout the window
14:11.8
of 72 hours,
14:13.1
posting and reposting,
14:14.4
something that not includes
14:15.5
only yours truly,
14:16.5
but someone as famous
14:17.5
as Senator Tulfo,
14:20.0
something as important
14:21.1
as West Philippine Sea,
14:22.2
like,
14:22.6
that's pretty suspicious stuff.
14:25.1
That's pretty weird.
14:26.3
So,
14:27.2
I'm sure,
14:28.2
you know,
14:28.5
there's gonna be denial
14:29.6
and some people are gonna say,
14:30.2
oh,
14:30.3
it's just a bug
14:31.1
or whatever.
14:32.2
And,
14:32.5
let me shut down
14:34.4
some idiots who might say,
14:35.3
oh,
14:35.5
Richard,
14:35.8
you're saying this
14:36.2
because it's China.
14:36.9
No,
14:37.1
actually,
14:37.4
if you look at it,
14:37.8
I had an article
14:38.7
on Facebook
14:40.4
two years ago.
14:41.9
This is on Nikkei Asia.
14:42.8
I messaged them directly
14:43.9
because,
14:44.6
suspiciously,
14:45.3
my account also got
14:46.3
shut down.
14:47.8
My public page account
14:48.7
got shut down
14:49.2
two years ago.
14:49.9
This is during
14:50.3
the third time
14:51.0
and there were a lot of
14:52.1
mumbo-jumbo
14:52.9
conspiracy theories
14:53.8
about what was happening.
14:55.3
So,
14:55.4
I wrote a piece,
14:56.8
right,
14:57.1
how Facebook silenced me,
14:59.4
right?
14:59.9
So,
15:00.3
you know,
15:00.8
this is not about,
15:02.2
you know,
15:02.8
this is not about
15:03.9
whether this is a
15:05.5
Western Chinese one.
15:06.3
This is about
15:06.9
censorship
15:07.9
or potential censorship
15:09.1
in this case.
15:09.8
So,
15:10.2
for me,
15:11.0
something's going on here,
15:12.3
right?
15:12.6
And,
15:12.9
I'm not gonna name names
15:13.8
but some very big people
15:15.6
a while ago
15:16.1
messaged me right away
15:16.9
and gave me the contact,
15:18.0
the contact of people
15:18.9
inside TikTok
15:19.5
and they were telling me
15:20.8
they also had problems
15:21.8
with TikTok,
15:23.1
right?
15:24.3
That,
15:24.8
you know,
15:25.4
that they had also
15:26.2
their fishy
15:27.6
wishy-washy experiences.
15:29.3
Eto,
15:29.4
eto,
15:29.5
eto.
15:30.5
So,
15:31.0
I'm just trying to bring out
15:31.8
my other article
15:32.5
where I criticized
15:33.2
Facebook also.
15:34.7
Now,
15:34.9
Facebook apologized to me.
15:36.0
They said there was a bug,
15:37.1
whatever.
15:37.9
But,
15:38.3
you know what I'm saying?
15:39.2
Eto,
15:39.7
eto.
15:40.8
Yeah.
15:41.3
So,
15:41.4
I had two articles
15:42.1
actually about it.
15:43.1
When Facebook silenced me,
15:44.7
this is in 2020,
15:47.2
an inquirer
15:48.3
and then the other one,
15:49.5
Nikkei Asia also wrote that.
15:51.3
you know.
15:53.0
Alright,
15:53.4
I got that fixed
15:54.1
and,
15:55.1
you know,
15:55.7
whenever I have a problem
15:56.3
on Facebook,
15:56.8
I directly contact people
15:57.9
inside Facebook
15:58.6
and say,
15:59.0
hey,
15:59.3
ayosin niya
15:59.8
if something fishy
16:01.0
is happening,
16:01.7
right?
16:02.4
So,
16:03.9
this is the
16:05.5
TikTok journey
16:06.4
we have,
16:06.9
right?
16:08.0
I don't post that much
16:09.3
and then I post once in a while
16:10.7
and then,
16:11.1
of course,
16:11.3
now I realize,
16:12.3
you know,
16:12.6
there's a battlefield
16:13.5
out there,
16:14.6
right?
16:15.3
There's a battlefield
16:16.0
out there.
16:16.5
There's an information
16:17.3
disinformation battlefield
16:18.4
out there
16:18.9
and me being someone
16:19.9
who's,
16:20.7
you know,
16:21.0
I'm a fighter,
16:21.7
right?
16:21.9
So,
16:22.0
I go for it.
16:22.8
So,
16:23.1
I try to engage
16:24.3
that platform
16:25.1
It's not easy.
16:27.6
TikTok,
16:28.1
you know what I'm saying?
16:28.8
You know,
16:29.0
it's,
16:29.5
there's an expectation
16:30.7
if we post there,
16:31.6
it's gonna be,
16:32.0
I don't know,
16:32.2
dancing,
16:32.8
some whatever stuff
16:33.6
and,
16:34.2
no,
16:34.3
that's not what I do
16:35.2
and,
16:36.3
here we are.
16:37.5
Here we are.
16:38.9
Ilang beses ko pinost
16:40.0
over and over again.
16:41.4
I delete,
16:41.9
I repost,
16:42.5
I post,
16:43.1
delete.
16:43.7
I mean,
16:44.1
it just doesn't,
16:45.4
it's not getting published.
16:47.3
So,
16:47.5
I use different
16:48.3
platforms,
16:49.3
et cetera.
16:49.6
So,
16:51.3
hopefully,
16:51.9
in the coming days
16:52.5
and all,
16:53.3
we're gonna see some response.
16:54.6
I already,
16:55.1
directed this case,
16:56.7
forwarded my case
16:57.5
to some people
16:58.7
who are,
16:59.8
you know,
17:01.0
in positions of power
17:02.0
and I'm gonna call on
17:03.1
some senators
17:03.5
and other people
17:04.1
to look into this issue.
17:05.8
This is unacceptable.
17:07.2
This is crazy.
17:08.3
Right?
17:08.6
So,
17:09.1
so,
17:09.6
TikTok Philippines,
17:11.0
I'm sure they're
17:11.7
employing Filipinos.
17:12.7
I hope those Filipinos
17:13.9
are working there.
17:15.0
You're doing your job
17:15.7
for your country.
17:16.4
Alright?
17:16.7
And you're not abetting
17:17.7
propaganda
17:18.5
of a hostile country
17:20.7
which is bullying us
17:21.5
in the West Philippine Sea.
17:22.7
Alright?
17:23.1
I really hope
17:23.8
you're doing your job,
17:24.6
your patriotic job.
17:25.7
I hope you're also
17:26.2
doing your job,
17:27.8
you know,
17:28.2
making sure
17:29.5
that you're not trampling
17:30.5
upon freedom of expression
17:31.6
in this kind of country.
17:32.7
And,
17:32.9
the posts I have
17:34.0
about the West Philippine Sea
17:34.9
are actually
17:35.3
not the spicy ones
17:37.4
that,
17:38.0
you know,
17:38.2
I have on Twitter.
17:39.0
On Twitter,
17:39.4
I'm very spicy.
17:40.6
Right?
17:41.2
Almost,
17:41.6
a genre provocateur genre.
17:43.8
But actually,
17:44.3
the posts I had there
17:45.1
were pretty mild.
17:46.3
They were just a general discussion
17:47.5
of the West Philippine Sea issue,
17:48.7
general discussion
17:49.2
of how we should deal with China.
17:50.9
So,
17:51.2
it looks like they have,
17:52.6
I'm just saying,
17:53.4
maybe,
17:54.2
I'm not saying
17:54.5
that's the case.
17:55.1
We have to have
17:55.5
proper investigation in this.
17:57.1
Maybe,
17:57.4
they just have that
17:58.0
some unsophisticated,
17:59.5
I don't know,
17:59.8
like,
18:00.0
anything that has to do
18:01.2
with West Philippine Sea
18:02.3
or whatever,
18:02.8
automatically,
18:03.4
madetect yan,
18:04.0
baka maana na siya.
18:04.8
I don't know.
18:05.4
I don't know what's going on.
18:06.6
What I know is going on
18:07.7
is that anything I post
18:08.5
about West Philippine Sea
18:09.3
this week,
18:10.1
four times,
18:10.6
five times,
18:11.2
repost,
18:11.6
delete,
18:12.0
repost,
18:12.4
it doesn't get published.
18:14.4
And,
18:14.6
on my site,
18:15.2
it deceptively says
18:15.9
it's published
18:16.4
but zero views.
18:17.6
And,
18:17.8
I post on anything else,
18:19.5
I don't know,
18:19.8
on DELIMA,
18:20.3
on UNITEAM,
18:21.5
it gets published right away.
18:23.0
And,
18:23.2
there are views,
18:24.1
tens of views,
18:24.6
hundreds of views
18:25.2
within seconds,
18:26.2
within minutes.
18:27.3
So,
18:28.3
something is weird here.
18:29.4
Something is not right here.
18:31.8
And,
18:32.2
I just hope
18:32.7
I'm not the only one
18:34.1
who is willing to share this.
18:36.9
If there are other people
18:37.6
who also have weird experiences,
18:39.8
make sure that you share it.
18:42.3
Make sure that you share it
18:43.3
and make sure that
18:44.0
people would get to know about it.
18:45.7
Alright?
18:46.0
This is very important.
18:47.4
This is very important
18:48.2
because
18:48.5
as years go by,
18:50.3
TikTok is just going to get
18:51.4
more and more powerful.
18:52.6
It is just so palatable
18:54.0
to Gen Z
18:55.1
and the new generation.
18:56.6
Its algorithm
18:57.2
is
18:58.3
very, very friendly.
19:00.1
Right?
19:00.4
It's so easy
19:01.4
to get half a million views
19:02.8
on TikTok
19:03.5
compared to
19:04.4
good luck getting that
19:05.5
on, I don't know,
19:06.2
YouTube.
19:06.7
Or, good luck getting that
19:07.7
on Instagram.
19:09.8
Right?
19:10.1
Or,
19:10.6
even on Facebook.
19:11.8
Right?
19:12.1
It's much easier
19:13.3
to go viral on TikTok.
19:14.7
And,
19:14.9
there are all of these
19:15.6
reward systems on TikTok.
19:17.8
And,
19:18.0
TikTok has,
19:19.3
TikTok allows
19:20.2
you to go from
19:20.8
zero to hero
19:21.6
within a very short span
19:22.9
of time.
19:24.0
So,
19:24.3
I analyze TikTok
19:25.1
very well.
19:26.0
And,
19:26.0
it looks like
19:27.5
it was really set up
19:28.5
to defeat
19:29.1
the establishment
19:30.5
tech companies.
19:33.3
Because,
19:33.7
as I said,
19:34.2
it's so hard
19:35.0
to have
19:36.2
100,000,
19:36.6
200,000 followers
19:37.7
on Twitter.
19:39.0
Right?
19:39.2
It's very hard.
19:39.9
Unless you're like
19:40.4
super celebrity,
19:41.2
then it's easy
19:41.7
to get millions.
19:42.4
But,
19:42.8
for non-celebrity,
19:43.9
it's hard to reach
19:44.4
the 100,000 milestone.
19:46.5
It's not that easy.
19:47.7
On TikTok,
19:48.3
it's easy to go that way.
19:49.5
You just post
19:50.1
regularly,
19:50.7
et cetera,
19:51.0
and it's easy to go viral.
19:52.4
So,
19:52.7
I understand the appeal
19:54.0
of this platform.
19:55.3
It's a very appealing platform.
19:57.3
It's a very empowering platform.
19:59.5
I know,
19:59.8
marami sa ating kababayan,
20:01.0
they gain voice,
20:02.5
including last year elections.
20:04.3
TikTokers for Lenny,
20:05.4
for instance.
20:06.4
In fact,
20:06.7
interestingly,
20:07.2
on TikTok,
20:08.0
the fight between opposition
20:09.1
and the forces of disinformation
20:10.4
was,
20:10.8
may siya patas,
20:11.9
may siya may laban opposition
20:12.8
because of the inclusive nature
20:14.2
of the algorithm
20:15.0
of TikTok.
20:16.4
It's the least elitist algorithm,
20:18.2
I think,
20:18.4
among all the major platforms.
20:19.6
So,
20:20.2
I understand its power.
20:22.2
I understand its appeal.
20:24.2
But we should not allow
20:25.5
any platform
20:26.4
to abet
20:27.5
or facilitate
20:28.5
propaganda on behalf
20:30.0
of another country
20:31.3
that happens to be
20:32.5
where this platform
20:33.9
is essentially based,
20:35.0
right?
20:35.6
And we know,
20:36.5
based on legislations in China,
20:38.4
no company
20:39.1
is beyond the scrutiny
20:40.9
of the state.
20:41.9
And we know,
20:42.4
under Xi Jinping,
20:43.1
the government has been
20:43.7
more and more directly
20:44.7
exercising scrutiny
20:46.2
and control,
20:47.0
if not control,
20:48.1
or at least influence
20:49.4
and scrutiny
20:50.2
over the operations
20:51.1
of all their major companies.
20:52.8
That includes
20:53.5
digital titans.
20:55.2
That includes,
20:56.2
of course,
20:57.4
tech companies,
20:58.7
right?
20:59.2
So, this argument that,
21:00.4
oh, this is a private company,
21:01.8
blah, blah.
21:02.4
Are you kidding me?
21:03.5
Are you joking me?
21:04.7
Right?
21:05.2
Do you have any idea
21:06.1
about what China is nowadays
21:07.9
under Xi Jinping?
21:09.9
It's a single-party regime.
21:13.4
All right?
21:13.8
They have total control
21:15.1
over everything.
21:16.5
Right?
21:16.7
No one is beyond
21:17.5
the grasp of the government.
21:19.6
Right?
21:20.8
Even billionaires.
21:21.9
Right?
21:22.0
How many billionaires in China
21:23.0
keep on disappearing
21:24.0
or, you know,
21:25.0
suddenly, you know,
21:25.7
showing up somewhere else?
21:26.7
Right?
21:27.3
So, this is not
21:28.4
a normal capitalist system.
21:29.9
This is not
21:30.4
your typical capitalist system.
21:32.3
Right?
21:32.6
Biden cannot go there
21:33.6
and just bully
21:34.1
Mark Zuckerberg
21:34.9
or bully Elon Musk,
21:36.4
who, by the way,
21:36.9
is against Biden
21:37.6
and Democrats and all.
21:38.6
That's not the case in China.
21:40.0
If the leader,
21:40.6
Xi Jinping,
21:41.0
wants something to happen,
21:41.9
it's going to happen
21:42.4
if you're a Chinese company.
21:43.6
Right?
21:44.0
There's no way around it.
21:45.4
So, again,
21:46.3
I completely understand
21:47.6
that's why I use it,
21:48.4
you know,
21:48.5
kind of burner phone
21:49.6
stick talk.
21:50.5
I'd rather turn off
21:51.4
this phone,
21:52.0
you know,
21:52.3
when I'm having
21:52.7
sensitive conversations,
21:54.5
et cetera.
21:55.5
But, you know,
21:56.4
this is a bit brazen na.
21:57.7
This is a bit crazy.
21:59.0
Now, anything I post
21:60.0
about West Philippine City
22:00.8
this week,
22:01.7
it just doesn't get published
22:03.0
and it deceptively shows
22:04.2
as published
22:05.2
but not appreciated
22:06.8
by anyone
22:07.5
or whatever.
22:08.1
Right?
22:08.4
So, this is really,
22:09.7
really weird stuff
22:10.9
at the very least.
22:12.4
So, our senators,
22:13.9
our government,
22:15.0
ang galing nila mag,
22:16.5
you know,
22:16.8
especially senators natin,
22:17.9
ang inga-inga nila.
22:18.7
They have,
22:19.6
investigations about
22:20.4
everything right and left.
22:21.3
Well, maybe you need,
22:22.6
it's time for you
22:23.3
to have a proper investigation
22:24.5
among the most,
22:25.2
about one of the most
22:26.6
powerful platforms
22:27.5
and soon probably
22:28.1
the most powerful platform
22:29.1
among the next,
22:30.0
you know,
22:30.3
generation of influencers
22:31.3
in the Philippines.
22:32.5
It is a very attractive,
22:34.0
compelling platform.
22:35.2
I will give that to them.
22:36.1
From a technical standpoint,
22:37.8
I think it's a really amazing one.
22:40.7
But,
22:41.8
this is not operating
22:43.4
within the normal
22:44.9
constitutional framework
22:46.2
of tech companies
22:47.3
that we know about.
22:48.3
Right?
22:49.1
So,
22:49.6
to tell me,
22:50.3
oh,
22:50.6
they're all spying on us anyway,
22:52.4
well,
22:53.2
you know,
22:53.8
there are levels to this.
22:55.2
Alright?
22:55.6
There are levels to this.
22:56.4
And as far as the Philippines is concerned,
22:58.2
we have a national security concern here.
23:00.6
Silencing or censorship,
23:02.0
allegedly,
23:02.5
silencing or censorship
23:03.4
of anyone who speaks a truth
23:05.3
on behalf of the Filipino people,
23:07.7
who speaks a truth to power,
23:09.5
truth to bullying,
23:10.7
and truth to Philippines'
23:12.1
legitimate sovereign rights
23:13.0
in the West Philippine Sea,
23:14.0
if there's any evidence
23:14.9
that anyone like that
23:16.0
is being silenced
23:17.2
deliberately,
23:18.4
systematically,
23:19.6
then something has to be done
23:21.0
about this.
23:22.3
Maybe not total ban,
23:23.5
but something has to be done
23:24.4
about this.
23:25.0
This is crazy.
23:25.9
This is crazy.
23:26.4
As I said,
23:27.1
I love to be more active
23:28.5
on TikTok.
23:29.4
I want to do more stuff
23:30.5
on TikTok.
23:31.0
I'm trying to do more shorts
23:32.0
and all of that.
23:33.0
I see the appeal of this.
23:34.3
I see the value
23:35.1
of reaching out.
23:36.1
I'm still trying to learn
23:37.2
and figure out
23:37.9
how to navigate
23:39.0
this platform.
23:40.5
I'm very comfortable
23:41.3
on Twitter.
23:41.9
I'm very comfortable
23:42.6
on Facebook.
23:43.9
And increasingly,
23:44.3
I'm very comfortable
23:45.1
on YouTube.
23:45.9
So, I'm trying to learn
23:46.9
about this.
23:47.4
And then they do this.
23:48.4
So, it's very disappointing.
23:49.7
But it's also
23:50.1
very disconcerting.
23:51.9
So, whoever is in charge
23:53.0
of TikTok Philippines,
23:55.4
figure out
23:55.9
what's going on here.
23:56.6
And don't give me
23:57.2
nonsensical answers
23:58.3
because we're not fools.
23:59.8
Okay?
24:00.3
I called out Facebook
24:02.2
until they had to fix it.
24:04.0
Philippine Airlines,
24:05.5
may mga sub-licel
24:06.4
I called them out.
24:07.4
So, I'm telling you,
24:08.8
you guys have to give me
24:10.0
a good reason
24:10.6
why this wishy-washy
24:11.9
stuff is happening.
24:12.8
Right?
24:13.1
Why everything
24:14.1
I post this week
24:14.8
about West Philippines
24:15.5
is related
24:16.0
doesn't get published
24:17.2
but deceptively shows
24:18.9
as published
24:19.5
but zero views.
24:21.2
But when I post
24:22.1
anything else
24:22.6
that has nothing to do
24:23.3
with that,
24:23.6
immediately there are views
24:24.3
about that.
24:25.1
This is suspicious.
24:26.6
And don't give me
24:27.1
this crap about,
24:28.0
oh, there's technical issue.
24:28.8
No.
24:28.9
I did this within
24:29.8
the window of 72 hours.
24:32.2
I did this
24:33.0
from northern Luzon
24:34.8
coming home from Baguio
24:36.2
all the way here
24:36.7
to Manila.
24:37.2
So, I uploaded this
24:38.1
in different locations
24:39.0
with different
24:39.8
internet connections,
24:42.0
et cetera.
24:42.5
So, I don't know
24:42.9
what the heck
24:43.3
is going on here.
24:44.5
But if you're going
24:45.0
to do wishy-washy stuff,
24:46.5
this is not even subtle.
24:48.3
Right?
24:48.4
It's crazy.
24:49.8
It's really crazy.
24:51.1
And yes,
24:51.5
it's disappointing.
24:52.5
Pinag-irapan namin
24:53.3
yung shorts na yan.
24:54.4
Di ba?
24:55.7
Hindi po mura
24:56.6
gumawa ng shorts.
24:57.5
All right?
24:57.8
Pinag-effort namin yan.
24:59.4
Tapos,
25:00.4
pag pinublish ko,
25:01.7
ano?
25:02.2
Hindi pala siya
25:02.8
nakikita ng ibang tao.
25:04.1
Anong kalokohan yan?
25:05.6
Di ba?
25:06.2
And you know,
25:06.9
it's about timeliness.
25:08.4
You want to go viral,
25:09.2
you post something
25:09.7
that's timely.
25:11.0
Right?
25:11.7
So, at the very least,
25:12.5
TikTok owes me.
25:13.9
You deprive me
25:14.7
of a number
25:15.6
of potentially viral posts.
25:17.3
Right?
25:17.9
But,
25:18.4
that's the least
25:18.8
of our problem.
25:19.8
More seriously,
25:20.7
we have to figure out,
25:21.8
are these guys
25:22.6
abetting disinformation
25:24.2
or abetting censorship
25:25.7
of any Filipino,
25:27.6
any patriot
25:28.2
who cares about
25:29.4
the West Philippine Sea
25:30.1
and wants to say something
25:30.9
about the West Philippine Sea?
25:31.7
This is crazy.
25:32.5
I'm just saying,
25:33.5
this is crazy.
25:34.6
And I hope
25:34.9
there'll be a resolution on this.
25:36.9
I'm just sharing my story
25:38.6
and I hope other people
25:39.7
who have similar weird stories,
25:41.6
go ahead and share it.
25:42.9
I know other people
25:43.6
are so invested in TikTok
25:44.7
that you may want to say,
25:46.1
ah,
25:46.3
let's just accept it.
25:47.9
But,
25:48.3
sorry,
25:48.3
guys,
25:48.6
that's not how
25:49.0
national security works.
25:50.1
That's not how
25:50.4
responsible regulation works.
25:52.6
Something has to be done
25:53.4
about this.
25:54.2
On that note,
25:54.6
thank you very much.
25:55.2
I'll talk to you guys
25:55.8
later again.
25:56.5
I have to finish
25:57.2
some article about
25:57.9
Vietnam,
25:58.4
China,
25:58.8
all of that.
26:00.8
I have to go back
26:01.7
to my day job.
26:03.0
But in a few hours,
26:03.8
I'll be joined by
26:04.7
Chris Tan,
26:05.8
our Chinoy
26:06.6
influencer friend.
26:07.9
We'll talk about
26:08.4
this issue too.
26:09.2
Maybe he's also
26:09.7
using TikTok.
26:10.4
Maybe he has also
26:11.0
some stories to share.
26:12.0
On that note,
26:12.5
thank you very much.
26:13.2
Mabuhay po kayo.
26:14.0
Mabuhay ang Pilipinas.
26:15.4
Kaya natin ito.
26:16.9
Laban lang.
26:17.5
Laban lang.
26:18.0
Ayan,
26:18.1
nabubulol na ako.
26:19.8
Ayon ako.
26:20.3
I'm just saying,
26:21.0
ayusin nila yan.
26:21.8
Ayusin nila yan.
26:23.0
Thank you very much.
26:23.6
God bless.
26:24.2
Talk to you soon.