468 | Adam Klein: Why TikTok Should Be Owned by Americans

The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

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🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Adam Klein, Director of the Strauss Center at the University of Texas at Austin and former Chairman of the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Adam discuss the case for forcing ByteDance to divest itself from TikTok or face a ban, why a forced divestment of TikTok passes constitutional muster, the case for treating a social media app like a radio station or cable network from a foreign-ownership ban perspective, and how to balance the American tradition of free speech and privacy in national security contexts.

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0:00.0	Marshall here.
0:01.0	Welcome back to the realignment.
0:03.0	A quick note before I get into today's episode.
0:11.0	I am going to record my latest Ask Me Anything in
0:13.9	Discussion episode with SAGER this upcoming week. So if you would like to hear
0:17.9	that full episode this weekend or submit your own questions, comments, or
0:21.5	just basically anything you're interested in us discussing,
0:24.2	be sure to go to realignment. supercast.com or you click the link at the top of this episode's
0:30.2	shownaps.
0:31.2	On to the actual episode, this is basically Tik-Tok week at the
0:34.8	Reelignment. We're going to investigate the debate around the Senate bill that
0:39.3	could divest Tik-Tok from bite dance in the United States. I've got a pro and a con episode so today
0:45.8	it's going to be the pro episode. I'm joined by my UT Austin colleague, director of the
0:51.8	Strauss Center and former chairman of the
0:53.7	chairman of the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
0:56.2	Adam Klein, we discuss this case for divesting and why we can still accomplish the
1:00.6	task with the national security and civil liberty priorities maintained in both cases.
1:07.0	Hope you all enjoy this conversation and a huge thank you to the Foundation for American Innovation,
1:12.0	supporting the work of this podcast, and you're
1:13.7	a notice we mentioned a bunch of studies and reports in this piece so you could
1:17.3	definitely be those linked in the show notes as well. Adam Klein, welcome to
1:21.7	the realignment.
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