Ep. 238: The REAL Reason TikTok Should Be Banned

The Liz Wheeler Show

Blaze Media

Daily News, News Commentary, News

4.9 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

A bill introduced by Senator Marco Rubio is the most recent effort from the U.S. government to actually ban the Chinese app TikTok. Today, Liz breaks down the constitutional question of whether they can actually ban an entity like TikTok, what the justification might be, and importantly, whether that is a precedent we want the government to set. Regardless, it is one of the most important topics in our culture wars right now. This is The Liz Wheeler Show. -- Grow thicker, healthier hair with Nutrafol. Get $15 off your first month’s subscription with the promo code LIZ: http://nutrafol.com. -- Say goodbye to puffiness and bags today! Go to https://genucel.com/LIZ right now to try the Most Popular Package. And if you order with promo code LIZ, you’ll get 70% off plus a complimentary gift set. -- Diversify your savings and get up to $1,500 of free silver today with American Hartford Gold: text LIZ to 6-5-5-3-2. 00:00 - Welcome to The Liz Wheeler Show 04:10 - Rubio introduces bill to ban TikTok 12:24 - What is TikTok actually? 26:28 - The data TikTok is capturing 32:55 - Can the gov. ban TikTok? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi, welcome to the Liz Wheeler Show.
0:02.0	I'm Liz Wheeler.
0:02.8	Guess what we're going to talk about today?
0:04.8	This is going to be everybody's favorite topic.
0:06.5	We are going to talk about TikTok.
0:09.4	That's right, TikTok.
0:10.7	Would you believe that TikTok has a billion active users on it?
0:14.5	I know we all think of this as just the Gen Z app,
0:17.1	but no, no, I bet you,
0:18.8	I bet the majority of people listening
0:20.4	are watching the show right now actually have this on their phone.
0:22.6	Whether they're an active user, whether they're not,
0:24.6	we all know it's a pretty addictive app,
0:26.1	but there's some pretty interesting developments related to TikTok.
0:31.3	Maybe you've heard that TikTok is a Chinese data collection app.
0:35.3	It certainly is, but the United States government
0:38.6	or certain politicians in the United States government
0:41.4	are making an effort to actually ban TikTok now.
0:45.5	Going back just a little bit to the Trump administration,
0:47.8	Trump had tried to force the parent company of TikTok,
0:53.1	which is the Chinese company,
0:55.0	the entity with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Blaze Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Blaze Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.