Tick tock for TikTok?
The Indicator from Planet Money
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🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
It's a big step towards an outcome that some high-ranking U.S. officials have desired for years. But why is there so much concern about TikTok, and just how likely is a ban?
Today, a couple of TikTok creators talk about what a ban would mean for them, and NPR tech correspondent Bobby Allyn explains how we got where we are and what could be coming next.
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| 0:00.0 | NPR. |
| 0:03.0 | The |
| 0:05.0 | The political pressure. |
| 0:08.0 | The political pressure on Tik-Toc |
| 0:12.0 | the political pressure on Tik-Tok continues to ratchet up. |
| 0:15.0 | This week, Biden administration officials are throwing support behind legislation |
| 0:20.0 | that would essentially give an ultimatum to Tik-Tok's Chinese parent company, bite dance. |
| 0:24.8 | Either sell Tik-Tok to an entity not controlled by a quote foreign adversary or be banned from US App Stores. |
| 0:34.0 | And as I've been hearing about all this, I couldn't help but think about, |
| 0:37.0 | well, Planet Money has a Tik-Toc account that is run by a whole team of people. |
| 0:41.0 | I wonder how they're feeling about this. If you guys just want |
| 0:43.7 | like really good tape I can like I can go crazy right now. I can be like no don't |
| 0:47.0 | ban Tik-talk no! Come on! Or I can be like, oh yeah, ban it, I hate that place. |
| 0:55.7 | What a team player. |
| 0:56.9 | That is Jack Corbett. |
| 0:58.2 | For the past few years, Jack has been a video producer making Tiktocks for Planet Money. And like a lot of people, Jack picked up Tiktoc during the early days of the pandemic. |
| 1:07.0 | At first I hated it and I was like, this is the worst place ever. |
| 1:10.0 | But then the algorithm figured out what I I wanted and then oh my gosh then I fell in love and then I was like oh wait we could do this |
| 1:18.2 | So also like many people Jack has a personal and also professional interest in what happens with this app. |
| 1:24.4 | I personally don't think it's going to get banned, but I might be eating my words. |
| 1:29.7 | We'll see. |
| 1:31.5 | This is the indicator for Planet Money, I'm Adrian Ma. |
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