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Thursday, March 14th, 2024. The Core 4. The four headlines you need to know. If you've got some

eyes or some ears, you probably know that the House of Representatives voted on and passed their

TikTok bill yesterday morning. But remember,

the bill they passed yesterday doesn't actually ban TikTok, okay? At least not yet. First, it would

have to pass the Senate where they aren't even sure if they're going to bring this bill to the

Senate floor for a vote. But let's say that does happen. And the Senate does vote to

pass this thing. President Biden has said he would sign it. At that point, TikTok would probably

challenge the bill in court. And that's actually one of the reasons that some of the senators are

planning to vote against the TikTok bill. They're not even sure it's legal,

and it would end up in a really long and expensive legal battle.

But let's ignore all of that for a second and pretend that the Senate votes,

yes, the president signs it, and TikTok doesn't try to fight the bill.

At that point, the parent company of TikTok would have six months to sell the app.

And if they don't, then it would get banned in America.

And remember, the issue here is not that TikTok tracks, stores, and sells a ton of our personal data.

All of the big apps do that, unfortunately.

The only real difference between the data collected by TikTok compared to, let's say, the data collected by, you know, Facebook, X, Instagram, Snap, Apple, Google, is that all of those are American companies. So in theory, I guess, American companies have free reign to track, save, and sell all of our data for billions of dollars, while TikTok

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