469 | Taylor Lorenz & Corbin Barthold: The Case Against the TikTok Sale Legislation

The Realignment

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

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post columnist and author of Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, and Corbin Barthold, TechFreedom's Internet Policy Counsel and Director of Appellate Litigation, join The Realignment. In this two-part episode, Marshall and Taylor discuss her work on the creator economy, broader story of the social internet's development, and her opposition to the House legislation to force ByteDance to divest itself from TikTok. Then, Marshall and Corbin discuss his belief that the legislation as written violates the First Amendment.

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0:00.0	Marshall here.
0:01.0	Welcome back to the realignment.
0:03.0	Today's episode is a special two-parter that is a part of the series we're putting out this week focusing on
0:14.4	the advisability and constitutionality of the forced Tik-Tok sale from bike dance
0:20.2	legislation that is sitting in the Senate right now after passing the House.
0:24.5	On Tuesday I spoke with Adam Klein,
0:26.4	a UT colleague of mine where he made the case
0:28.8	for not only the advisability of forcing a sale
0:31.9	but also the basic constitutionality around the free speech
0:34.6	issues that others have brought up. I also in terms of today's episode recorded a
0:38.8	conversation a few weeks back with the Washington Post Taylor-Enz.
0:42.2	Originally it was supposed to go into focus on her with the Washington Post Taylor Lorenz.
0:43.0	Originally it was supposed to go into focus on her new book,
0:45.6	Extremely Online, The Unto Story of Fame,
0:48.4	Influence, Empower on the Internet,
0:50.0	but about a third of the way through we really started focusing
0:52.1	on the Tik-tong debate,
0:53.2	and she suggested that I also bring on a guy named Corbin Barthold of Tech Freedom
0:58.2	to discuss why he believes the Tiktoc legislation is not constitutional from a free speech
1:03.4	perspective so instead of releasing the Taylor episode by itself I merge the
1:06.8	Taylor episode with the Corbin episode so we could get a really
1:10.0	interesting perspective to contrast with Adams and folks can make up their own minds.
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