326. The Problem With Americas Ban on TikTok

Published: March 16, 2024, 9:08 p.m.

b'We dig into the latest proposed legislation to ban TikTok \\u2014 which is quickly moving in the US House with broad bipartisan support \\u2014 and the jingoistic motivations, the complete lack of concern about any of the actual cultural influence, social impact, economic power, or just empirical reality of this technology, and instead the hyper-fixation on this being a Chinese app rather than an American app. Indeed, the ban bill would force TikTok into becoming American owned \\u2014 thus becoming a way more pernicious and shitty piece of tech.\\n\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 TikTok Crackdown Shifts Into Overdrive, With Sale or Shutdown on Table | Wall Street Journal https://archive.is/fGfnc \\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 TikTok Is For Millennials, It Turns Out https://www.garbageday.email/p/tiktok-millennials-turns\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 The Influencers Getting Paid to Promote Designer Knockoffs From China https://www.wired.com/story/influencers-paid-promote-designer-knockoffs-from-china/ \\n\\nSubscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills \\n\\nHosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)'