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Okay, we would like to welcome Thane Rosenbaum to the show now, CBS News, Legal Anus.

So what is going on with TikTok?

Is it going to exist in the United States, and is it going to be the same algorithm?

So, Jack, we won't know for another 90 days.

This is now the fourth attempt to stave off forcing TikTok to end operations

in the United States. Remember, this started with legislation during the Biden administration

that essentially had a, you know, we're not interested in social media companies that mine data

of Americans that come from

putative enemies of ours and that there was no sufficient insulation or Chinese wall,

so to speak, between the Chinese government and TikTok.

That's a reasonable stance, in my opinion.

Yeah, yeah, and the TikTok's epic, we're not really owned by Chinese government.

And so there became a fight about that when, in fact, Bight Dance did have relationships with the Chinese government.

And it's not as if they could refuse a request.

Right.

You know, the Chinese government is like the godfather.

You don't refer to the request.

So if they had asked for something, they would have said, yes.

So the Biden administration said, look, you know, you either sell yourself to an independent

corporation or you shut down in your operation in the United States.

You want to do whatever you do in Europe, that's fine, but not here. Donald Trump, you know, said, well, wait a minute. I think I won this election in part because of TikTok.

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