Big Tech Bows to China
Heritage Explains
Heritage Podcast Network
4.7 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
This week, we explain more about Apple bowing to the Chinese Communist Party, why Apple would want to remove Twitter from its app store, if Elon Musk will be able to use his power for good and more. Our guest is Jake Denton, a research associate in Heritage’s Tech Policy Center. Listen to more Heritage podcasts here. Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Michelle Cordero, and this is Heritage Explains. |
| 0:17.5 | Big Tech is making big news. |
| 0:21.6 | Last week, Apple made headlines when the news broke that they restricted access to airdrop in China to block widespread protests over the Chinese Communist Party's zero COVID policy. |
| 0:35.6 | Here's Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. |
| 0:40.0 | You have people in China that are really engaged in a noble effort to protest, which |
| 0:45.0 | is basically Leninist rule. |
| 0:47.1 | So what is Apple doing with that? |
| 0:48.9 | They are limiting the air drop function of the protesters. |
| 0:52.5 | So they are serving basically as a vassal |
| 0:55.7 | to the Chinese Communist Party. |
| 1:00.1 | In other big tech news, |
| 1:01.9 | Elon Musk recently tweeted his plans |
| 1:04.2 | to release information on the suppression |
| 1:06.6 | of the Hunter Biden laptop story. |
| 1:09.2 | And Apple threatened to remove Twitter from the App Store. |
| 1:13.2 | All this, while calls to ban TikTok, continue to gain steam. |
| 1:19.2 | This week we explain more about Apple bowing to the CCP, why Apple would want to remove |
| 1:25.3 | Twitter from its app store, if Elon Musk will be able to use |
| 1:28.9 | his power for good and more. |
| 1:31.7 | Our guest is Jake Denton, a research associate in Heritage's Tech Policy Center, our conversation |
| 1:38.3 | after this short break. Five days a week, two episode formats, one mission, to deliver the news you care about and analysis on the biggest issues facing America. |
| 1:58.5 | The Daily Signal podcast brings you two episodes every day in the same podcast feed. |
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