#371: So You Want to Ban TikTok

Tech Policy Podcast

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4.8 • 45 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) discusses, in exquisite detail, the First Amendment problems with H.R. 7521, the House bill to ban TikTok. Topics include: - Your First Amendment right to read crazy shit - TikTok ban bros: throwing spaghetti at the wall - Foreign broadcast-ownership rules: so passé - “iT’S nOT sPEech, It’S CoNDuCt” - H.R. 7521: Least. Tailored. Law. Ever. - Banning media: it’s what the other guys do - McCarthyism: so hot right now Links: A Breakdown of the Bizarre Factions Fighting Over the TikTok Ban Bill (https://tinyurl.com/yc25nbb9) Tech Policy Podcast #344: TikTok and the First Amendment (https://tinyurl.com/5n7kd9f7) Tech Policy Podcast #368: How the Government Gets Your Data (https://tinyurl.com/bdf5e25a) Tech Policy Podcast #289: The History, Use, and Abuse of the Fairness Doctrine (https://tinyurl.com/dp98arda) The only thing Congress can agree on is to ban TikTok!? (https://tinyurl.com/3fk954ye)

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0:00.0	Okay, everyone.
0:03.0	Okay, everyone.
0:26.0	This is it.
0:27.5	This is happening.
0:29.8	We have to do a TikTok episode.
0:33.7	This is not going to be the TikTok episode you want.
0:37.3	This is going to be the TikTok episode you want. This is going to be the TikTok episode you need.
0:42.9	Welcome, of course, to the Tech Policy Podcast.
0:46.5	I am Corbyn Barthold.
0:49.0	It may seem to you that I'm going to start speaking about TikTok at a slightly odd time. We're in a lull.
0:57.6	The House several weeks ago passed H.R. 7521. It's bill to ban TikTok. The hot takes have all
1:07.4	come and that's kind of died down. We're now waiting to see what the Senate is going to do with this bill.
1:15.5	But this is one worth listening to, I promise. I will make this thousandth take worthwhile because we are going to get so deep into the legal weeds on this episode.
1:30.6	Oh, you don't know how deep we're going to get.
1:33.4	If you don't want to get Apocalypse now,
1:37.1	go on with me on a search for Colonel Kurtz level into the legal weeds.
1:43.4	You're free to leave now. I will catch you on the next episode.
1:48.0	But I've seen so many poor takes on the law here. There is so much being thrown at the wall
1:54.5	just to see what's going to stick that I felt the need to give some thoughts here.
2:02.9	So, table setting.
2:08.7	The House, by a vote of 352 to 65,
2:11.8	past HR 7521,
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