When ‘Do People Like Me?’ Gets Someone Killed

27 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a TJ Walker YouTube video arguing that smartphones—and especially live-streaming—are the primary source of distraction in cars, increasing risk. Walker urges strong legal consequences for offenders, suggesting a prison term that includes a ban on smartphone possession after release as an appropriate penalty, while acknowledging constitutional and procedural complexities are beyond the excerpt's scope.

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With ourselves. The number one source of distraction in a car is the number one source of distraction for everyone, everywhere, every time of the day. And it's this staring at your phone. And of course, live streaming sort of takes it up by a factor of a thousand because you're even more intently focused on do people like me? Are people watching me? How many people are on right now? I'm hoping that authorities send a strong message with sentencing, but I also think it's time to get creative. I'm not suggesting this person should be treated leniently by getting less prison time, but I do think that some kind of prison sentence forbidding this person from ever having a smartphone again would be wildly, wildly appropriate. I'll leave it to others who figure out the constitutional niceties of how to do that. That's not the scope of our show.