Fri. 01/17 – TikTok Loses In The Supreme Court
Techmeme Ride Home
Brian McCullough
4.7 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The Supreme Court rules against TikTok, but at this point, I think this is all kabuki theater. Somehow TikTok is going to survive. Bumble’s founder returns to the company. Is Apple Intelligence really working for anyone? Does anyone care that the Chinese have allegedly hacked everything at this point? And, of course, The Weekend Longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Supreme Court Upholds Law That Threatens US TikTok Ban (Bloomberg)
- Bumble Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd to Return as CEO in March (Bloomberg)
- iOS 18.3 temporarily disables Apple Intelligence notification summaries for select apps, more (9to5Mac)
- General Motors Is Banned From Selling Driving Behavior Data for 5 Years (NYTimes)
- FBI Warned Agents It Believes Phone Logs Hacked Last Year (Bloomberg)
- Chinese Hackers Accessed Yellen's Computer in US Treasury Breach (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Charlwin Mao, the Chinese tech founder welcoming ‘TikTok refugees’ (Financial Times)
- Kids Turn to a Mental-Health Chatbot to Share Their Anxieties (WSJ)
- To release Animal Crossing in the West, Nintendo ‘had to change everything’ (Polygon)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Tech meme right home for Friday. January 17th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. The Supreme Court rules against TikTok, but at this point, I think this is all Kabuki theater. Somehow TikTok is going to survive. Bumble's founder returns to the company. Is Apple intelligence really working for anyone? Does anyone care that the Chinese have |
| 0:21.6 | allegedly hacked everything at this point? And of course, the weekend long-rate suggestions. |
| 0:26.0 | Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. |
| 0:32.4 | The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against TikTok. They have upheld the law that would mean |
| 0:36.9 | TikTok is facing a |
| 0:38.0 | U.S. ban in a matter of hours. Quoting Bloomberg, the ruling is that free speech rights must |
| 0:43.5 | yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national security risk. In a unanimous |
| 0:48.0 | vote, the High Court said Friday Congress acted constitutionally when it required |
| 0:52.2 | bite-dance to sell the video-sh sharing app by January 19th or face a ban. |
| 0:56.3 | The decision opens an uncertain chapter for TikTok and it's 170 million U.S. users. |
| 1:00.6 | President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to save TikTok and could choose to suspend enforcement of the new law once he takes office on Monday. |
| 1:06.7 | But the impact of that move would depend on the response of the tech companies that host and distribute TikTok, including Apple and Alphabet's Google. |
| 1:13.8 | Under the law, those companies would face the prospect of massive fines for continuing to support TikTok, |
| 1:18.4 | and they would have to decide whether assurances from the Trump administration provide sufficient legal cover, end quote. |
| 1:24.2 | Now, here's the thing. So this ban is likely going to go into effect. Maybe somehow. But it is clear now that |
| 1:29.9 | there is bipartisan consensus to undo all of this somehow. Even Senator Wyden told me this on |
| 1:35.4 | this weekend's bonus episode. As Axios points out, Bight Dance may have effectively called America's |
| 1:40.2 | bluff. Quote, we don't know why Bight Dance hasn't divested at stake in TikTok, nor even |
| 1:45.2 | entered into negotiations to do so. Maybe it's been inactive by choice, maybe by Chinese government |
| 1:50.0 | command. Either way, much of the opposition appears to be folding. Some of the Wofflers say they |
| 1:54.8 | just want to give ByteDance more time to divest, hoping that it's venture backers or suitors like |
| 1:58.7 | Frank McCourt and Steve Mnuchin can work out a deal. |
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