A "TikTok ban" is moving forward.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 12 March 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The TikTok ban. On Thursday, a bill that could make TikTok unavailable in the United States advanced in Congress, with a committee voting unanimously to bring it up for a full vote. The bill, called Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, could force the company to be sold or face prohibitions in the U.S.
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| 0:44.8 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about a potential TikTok ban, which is getting some serious momentum in Congress. |
| 1:13.4 | It's a pretty big story. I think there's a lot of meat on the bone. I'm excited to jump in. Before we do, though, a quick reminder, we just |
| 1:19.8 | released a few dozen more tickets to our event in New York City. The event sold out. Super |
| 1:26.1 | pumped about that. We reached out to the venue. I had like friends and |
| 1:30.0 | family who had not gotten tickets yet. So it happened a little bit quicker than I was expecting it to. |
| 1:34.9 | And they released some more tickets for us. I don't really totally understand how that stuff works. |
| 1:39.6 | It feels weird to have a sell out and then be like, actually, we have more tickets, but we have more |
| 1:43.3 | tickets. And I want to sell it out again. So if you have not gotten a ticket yet and you want to come to the |
| 1:48.8 | event in New York City on April 17th, it's a Wednesday night, now is a great time to get that ticket. |
| 1:54.7 | We have so far already booked Josh Hammer from Newsweek and Katrina V Denhoeval from The Nation to media bigwigs right |
| 2:05.5 | now, for real. I mean, their stuff is read by a lot of people. And I think it's going to be a |
| 2:11.0 | really interesting discussion, even if we're just them, but we do have a third guest coming soon, |
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