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Tech Won't Save Us

Does Banning TikTok Make Sense? w/ Shoshana Wodinsky & Daniel Greene

Tech Won't Save Us

Paris Marx

Silicon Valley, Books, Technology, Arts, Future, Tech Criticism, Socialism, Paris Marx, News, Criticism, Tech News, Politics

4.8626 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Paris Marx is joined by Shoshana Wodinsky to discuss the unconvincing arguments being made for a TikTok ban in the United States, then by Daniel Greene to explore how the turn against Chinese technology signals a shift in US policy on the internet and technology. Shoshana Wodinsky is a freelance reporter, previously at Marketwatch and Gizmodo. She writes the Tubes newsletter. Daniel Greene is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies and the ...

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If you talk about data, like it's one sort of amorphous, solid lump, the way that kind of

0:07.6

Congresspeople have done until now, you end up with privacy legislation that's full of holes

0:13.5

and really easy to manipulate in like big tax favor, which is what we saw in California

0:20.0

and why they needed to update their law, the CCPA, like after a year.

0:43.4

Okay. Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us.

0:47.7

I'm your host, Paris Marks, and I have a very exciting show for you this week. But before we get into it, just a reminder that Tech Won't Save Us turned three years old

0:52.8

this month, which is very exciting, I think.

0:56.2

And to celebrate that, we're asking listeners like you to support the show over on patreon.com

1:01.4

so that we can keep making this fantastic high-quality show with these critical interviews and

1:07.4

perspectives on the tech industry for you every single week so that I can do

1:12.5

the research that goes into putting these shows together so that I can have these fantastic

1:16.9

conversations with the guests that we have on the show so that Eric can put it together and

1:21.7

make it sound so great every week and so that Bridget can make our transcripts. And on top of that,

1:26.6

if we hit 200 new supporters this

1:28.7

month, we're going to make a special series on Elon Musk looking into how he became this

1:35.2

kind of genius figure that we're all expecting to save the world, you know, how this myth was created,

1:40.9

how it has benefited him, and why it's so essential that we break this myth, that

1:46.2

we stop seeing him as this genius if we ever want to hope to build a better world.

1:51.2

And so if you want to help us hit that goal of 200 new supporters this month, you can go

1:56.1

to patreon.com slash tech won't save us, become a supporter, and I'll also send you some stickers in the mail over

2:02.4

the next couple months if you do that. Listener support is essential to being able to make tech

2:08.0

won't save us every single week to ensuring that the critical perspectives on the tech industry

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