#PRC: TikTok and the Trump Campaign. Joshua Rogin
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🗓️ 13 March 2024
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#PRC: TikTok and the Trump Campaign. Joshua Rogin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/11/trump-tiktok-donor-china-foreign-policy/
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Bachelor. This is CBS I on the world. Tic Talk. On March 7th, I read from a new column by Josh Rogin of the Washington Post, Global Opinions. |
| 0:16.0 | A bill identifying Tik-Toc as a threat passed a congressional committee 50 to zero moving towards a House floor vote. |
| 0:28.0 | 50 to zero. |
| 0:30.4 | I speculate that the number of zeros ever in votes in Congress is extremely rare. |
| 0:36.5 | I don't remember seeing it any time in these last 20 years, zero. |
| 0:41.3 | I know for example the Declaration of War in World War I with Woodrow Wilson cheering on Congress was not a zero. |
| 0:48.0 | So, Josh, a very good evening to you. 50 to zero. |
| 0:52.5 | This is unanimity in a partisan landscape. |
| 0:56.0 | What is it that Tik-Dok represents |
| 0:57.9 | that Congress is convinced it's a threat |
| 1:00.6 | and must be dealt with immediately? |
| 1:02.1 | Good evening to you. Well, good evening, John. Good evening to you. |
| 1:03.0 | Well, good evening, John. |
| 1:05.0 | Well, as you point out, there's a strong bipartisan agreement that something has to be done |
| 1:09.0 | to exert a little bit more oversight than perhaps a little bit more control over what's quickly |
| 1:15.1 | becoming one of the largest social media apps that American children use. |
| 1:19.5 | That's Tik-Toc and the reason is twofold. |
| 1:22.2 | One is because the company is owned by a Chinese |
| 1:25.5 | conglomerate and all the data is potentially vulnerable to exploitation by the Chinese government because that's how China works because in China |
| 1:35.2 | if the Chinese company has your data the Chinese government can take it at any time it doesn't mean they're asking for it |
| 1:40.8 | It doesn't mean they always are looking at it it just |
| 1:42.8 | means you can't protect it that's the bottom line and the second is that the |
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