Thu. 05/18 – Montana Bans TikTok
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🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, May 18th, 2023 I'm Brian McCullough today. |
| 0:09.4 | The first official ban of Tik-Tock by a U.S. state. Unskippable TV-like ads are coming to |
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| 0:25.3 | headset got developed? |
| 0:27.1 | Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Montana Governor Greg Gienforte has signed the country's first bill that bans |
| 0:38.7 | Tik-Toc in a U.S. state. It's set to go in effect on January 1st, 2024. I've heard that when Utah recently banned |
| 0:46.9 | Porn Hub, usage of VPNs in that state exploded. Not sure if something similar can or will happen here. |
| 0:54.1 | Quoting the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:55.6 | Republican Governor Greg Gienforte on Wednesday signed the bill into law |
| 0:59.1 | after Montana's legislature passed it last month. |
| 1:02.2 | The legislation drew criticism from Chinese |
| 1:04.4 | own Tik-Toc and free speech advocates including the American Civil Liberties Union. |
| 1:08.4 | The Montana ban is set to go in effect on January 1st. Any legal challenge though could trigger an |
| 1:13.7 | injunction to delay the band's start date. The law would bar Tik-Tok from |
| 1:17.7 | operating within the treasure state and would also forbid app stores such as |
| 1:21.8 | Googles and apples from making |
| 1:23.1 | TikTok available to download within Montana. TikTok and App Stores |
| 1:27.0 | would be liable for fines of $10,000 a day for violating the law. |
| 1:30.8 | Individual TikTok users wouldn't be punished. |
| 1:34.1 | Gienforte signed a bill that infringes on the First Amendment rights of the people of Montana |
| 1:37.8 | by unlawfully banning Tik-Tok, a Tik-Tok spokeswoman said in a statement, she did not say whether the company plans to pursue legal action. |
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