Episode 327: The TikTok Ban

Sinisterhood

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True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Cat videos. Viral dances. Real community. It seems silly that a simple app could become an outlet, a source of hope, answers to medical mysteries, on-the-ground guerilla journalism, and even a way for small businesses to find customers, but starting in 2020, the US government set its sights on the app for more reasons than a viral dance. Now, the app and its community's future hangs in the balance. This week's episode is The TikTok Ban.

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0:00.0	Cat videos, viral dances, real community.
0:03.3	It seems silly that a simple app could become an outlet, source of hope, answers to medical mysteries,
0:08.8	provide on-the-ground journalism, and even a way for small businesses to find customers.
0:13.4	But starting in 2020, the U.S. government set its sights on this app for more reasons than a viral dance.
0:19.2	Now, both the app and its community's future hangs in the balance.
0:23.6	This week's episode is The TikTok Band.
0:31.3	A bump in the nights, your heart fills with dread, probably a murder or who wants you dead it could be a ghost
0:41.3	a demon or worse perhaps you're the victim of a witch's curse it's hopeless you're doomed you'd call a priest if you could
0:50.2	you'd rather just listen to who? Sinisterhood.
1:01.5	I'm going to kill you.
1:04.1	What a roller coaster of 72 hours it has been.
1:09.4	Really?
1:10.0	I mean, really, I mean, the law got past whatever, you know, 270-ish days ago.
1:14.4	But even in the Supreme Court ruling, Neil Gorsuch said,
1:18.1	we've had a fortnight to resolve finally and on the merits a major First Amendment dispute.
1:23.1	We figure out the TikTok ban and we'll let you have all your stuff.
1:30.1	But no, I mean, we're not monsters.
1:32.0	Just kidding.
1:32.6	They all are.
1:33.2	They are.
1:33.9	Nobody said it affects 170 million Americans.
1:36.9	The U.S. population is 334 Americans.
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