Can Congress Ban TikTok?

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🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

U.S. lawmakers are debating a series of proposals that would ban the deeply popular video app TikTok or otherwise curtail its reach, a week after a House panel grilled TikTok CEO Shou Chew about the platform’s perceived threat to national security and ties to the Chinese government. An outright ban would represent “uncharted territory” for the U.S. government, according to former national security official and cybersecurity expert Timothy Edgar. We talk to Edgar and New York Times reporter Sapna Maheshwari about whether Congress can legally – or practically – outlaw TikTok and how the platform's defenders are responding. Guests: Sapna Maheshwari, business reporter covering TikTok and emerging media, New York Times Timothy Edgar, senior fellow in international and public affairs and professor of the practice of computer science, Brown University. He's also a former national security official under President Obama and author of "Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance and the Struggle to Reform the NSA" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.5	From KQBD in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim. Coming up on forum, how close is Congress to banning TikTok?
1:00.4	Senator Josh Holly yesterday tried to force a vote on a bill banning the video sharing app before he was blocked by a fellow Republican senator. A week ago, TikTok CEO, Shochoo,
1:05.4	was grilled by both Republicans and Democrats at a hearing about the company's ties to the Chinese
1:10.2	government.
1:11.6	Still, banning a platform that 150 million Americans use and in some cases have built their livelihoods on is no small matter, and it's unclear how the U.S. would go about doing it anyway.
1:21.6	So this hour, we look at the different proposals for dealing with TikTok and hear from you.
1:25.6	Do you think a ban on TikTok is justified?
1:28.5	Join us after this news.
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