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PRC : TikTok no more. Brandon Weichert, author of Biohacked: China's Race to Control Life, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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PRC : TikTok no more. Brandon Weichert, author of Biohacked: China's Race to Control Life, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:
https://www.wsj.com/tech/u-s-china-internet-war-intensifies-as-house-passes-tiktok-ban-7d19ff05

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0:00.0

This is the CBSi and the world. I'm John Bachelor with Gordon Chang at Gordon G.

0:09.0

I am not a tick-talker so we welcome Brandon Weicher,

0:13.0

author most recently of BioHACT, and also the book about

0:17.4

that is the present news, the shadow war,

0:21.2

a quest for, Iran's quest for supremacy.

0:23.8

However, we ask Brandon's help now on something that is strange to me.

0:28.5

It's called Tik-Tok.

0:29.8

I do not Tik-Tok.

0:31.0

I do not have it on my phone. I think I'm aged out of

0:34.7

Tik-Tok land. However, Brandon, Tik-Tok is seen as a threat by the

0:39.5

U.S. Congress and I believe by the Biden administration and they've now moved legislation that obliges the owner of Tic-talk called bite dance which is headquartered in the People's Republic of China to sell Tik-Tok to an approved buyer.

0:56.4

Have I said all that correctly?

0:58.1

And what is the thinking of Tik-Tok?

0:59.9

What is the threat?

1:00.9

Good evening to you, Brandon.

1:02.4

Good evening, and thank you for having me and

1:04.4

hello Gordon and yeah I think you're completely correct about the way you're

1:08.7

analyzing what what Congress's problem is with this program and I think that the

1:16.2

Tik-Tok now have or bite dance rather I think has about a year to basically

1:22.0

off-load Tik-Toc to an American partner. We know that

1:25.9

Oracle has basically been running their algorithm and monitoring it for the

1:31.1

last few years, so I wouldn't be surprised if Oracle does end up taking over the

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