Lawfare Archive: Trump Takes Aim at TikTok and WeChat
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🗓️ 9 October 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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From August 12, 2020: President Trump recently issued executive orders aimed at banning TikTok and WeChat from operating in the United States. To discuss the sanction, Bobby Chesney sat down with Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens, an associate professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a faculty affiliate with the Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the Clements Center for National Security at UT; and Dr. Ronald Deibert, a professor of political science and the founder and director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. In addition to the executive orders concerning TikTok and WeChat, they also discussed the larger U.S.-China relationship and the role of technology competition in that space.
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| 1:12.2 | This week the US District Court for the District of Montana will hold a hearing on TikTok's |
| 1:16.2 | request for a preliminary injunction in its suit against the state of Montana. TikTok |
| 1:20.8 | has argued Montana's ban violates the company's first amendment rights and the free speech |
| 1:24.4 | rights of its users. Montana argues the state has the authority to regulate the app to protect |
| 1:29.0 | Montana's and has asked the law be allowed to go into effect as the case moves forward. |
| 1:33.6 | For today's archive episode, I picked an episode from August 12, 2020, in which Bobby |
| 1:39.3 | Chesney sat down with Shina Chesney's and Ronald Debert to talk about former President |
| 1:44.2 | Donald Trump's executive orders aimed at banning TikTok and WeChat from operating in |
| 1:48.3 | the United States. They also discussed the larger US-China relationship and technology |
| 1:53.0 | competition between the two countries. |
| 2:07.1 | I'm Professor Bobby Chesney from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as LawFair and |
| 2:11.7 | the National Security Law Podcast. This is the LawFair Podcast, August 12, 2020. |
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