Thoughts on TikTok
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🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Today, the House of Representatives passed a bill that could ban TikTok in the U.S. We’ll weigh the national security risks behind the app and its growing impact on American culture. Plus, how bitcoin bounced back, a crackdown on judge shopping (yes, that’s a thing) and why we’re glad our podcast isn’t owned by a billionaire!
Here’s everything we talked about today:
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- “What to Know About the TikTok Bill That the House Passed” from The New York Times
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- “Bitcoin Hits Record $72,000, Emboldening Crypto Industry” from The New York Times
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- “Bitcoin Rally Is Minting More Than 1,500 ‘Millionaire Wallets’ a Day” from Business Insider
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- “Federal courts move against ‘judge-shopping'” from Politico
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- “Don Lemon says Elon Musk canceled X deal after taping an interview together” from The Washington Post
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| 0:00.0 | I'm ready. Jay ready. |
| 0:02.0 | Oh, gee, I guess we'll go because Jay said we're going to go. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey everybody, I'm Connor Rosedale. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Kimberly Adams. Thank you for joining us on |
| 0:14.8 | this Wednesday, March the 13th and I've meant to say it earlier in the week but |
| 0:19.8 | forgot happy Ramadan to everybody getting going. good luck with your fast if you're |
| 0:23.9 | fasting and so today we are going to do some news and then some smiles so let's get |
| 0:29.0 | to it all right let's get to it. My turn? |
| 0:33.0 | Okay. |
| 0:34.0 | Well, so this is not a story that nobody has heard of because if you read the paper or listen to the news |
| 0:39.1 | or watch the news if you have to. |
| 0:47.0 | This story is everywhere. Congress, the House today passing the bill demanding that bite dance the Chinese affiliate and I don't know if it's actually |
| 0:51.7 | Chinese, well whatever it's it's very close to China. |
| 0:54.0 | Bight Dance, the parent company of TikTok, demanding the bite dance divest of |
| 1:00.0 | TikTok if it wants to do business in the United States. |
| 1:02.0 | Who knows what's going do business in the United States. |
| 1:03.0 | Who knows what's going to happen in the Senate? |
| 1:05.2 | The President, through I think his spokesperson, |
| 1:09.2 | Queen Jean-Pierre has said the President will engage with it and may sign it so it's got some traction |
| 1:14.1 | it gets through the Senate here's here's why I want to bring it up I honestly |
| 1:17.8 | can't figure out how I feel about this thing while I absolutely understand the |
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