Ban TikTok?

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Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Politicians across the United States are calling for an outright ban on the popular social media platform. Alex Heath, deputy editor at The Verge, explains how TikTok hopes to pre-empt one from ever passing. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Haleema Shah, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to today explained.
0:02.9	TikTok.
0:03.9	You love it.
0:04.8	Your grandma loves it.
0:05.8	Your nephew loves it.
0:06.6	Your dog's kind of into it.
0:07.8	You know who's not into it?
0:09.6	Congress.
0:10.5	The time to wait to secure the privacy
0:14.2	of American citizens is long past.
0:16.7	The federal government.
0:18.0	We do have national security concerns,
0:20.9	at least from the FBI's end, about TikTok.
0:24.0	State governments.
0:25.0	But just this month, more than it does in Republican governors
0:28.4	have moved to ban the app on government devices.
0:31.1	Colleges?
0:32.0	The crackdown on TikTok continues
0:34.0	with Alabama's Auburn University.
0:36.4	Now banning the video sharing app on campus, Wi-Fi,
0:39.6	and school devices.
0:41.0	Other publicly funded universities
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