Tik, Tok, Boom

The American Mind

Amanda Callanan

Philosophy, Declarationofindependence, Founding, Politics, Conservative, Limitedgovernment, Society & Culture, News, Constitution, Claremontinstitute

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The House has passed a bill that will force TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to divest from the platform within six months; otherwise, the service will be banned in the U.S. The bill has split the Right as well as the Left, raising questions about espionage, economics, and American sovereignty. But will shutting down the app really hurt China all that much? Meanwhile, old man yells at country as Biden gives his third State of the Union Address, which may or may not have riled up his supporters but certainly failed to win over his detractors. Finally, former special counsel Robert Hur testified about his decision to characterize Biden as a nice, forgetful old man. The editors investigate what it's all about, before reminding you to read the damn site.

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the roundtable.
0:03.0	It's a matter of public record that, you know, certain pieces of computer infrastructure have been found to contain chips with little things on them that allow the Chinese to kind of, you know, maybe switch them off or maybe harvest data.
0:20.0	It's just a lot of hardware and a lot of software and yeah who's ever bright idea it was to kind of you know
0:30.6	worm into the US communications infrastructure with something like Tik-Tok, you know, I suppose it'll be a
0:39.1	wistful day for them if and when. The toy is taken away, but I just, you know, it really beggars belief that they're going to call a security council meeting or whatever in the halls of the
0:56.7	CCP and like oh no they did it. They Tik Toc is gone down. You know it's not like a battleship that you sink in a pitched battle in the middle of the Pacific Theater in
1:06.7	World War II and it has like major repercussions. You know, Tic-Toc is a big deal, but it's not the be all end all and China is a lot smarter than to put all the eggs in that basket.
1:17.4	I like him.
1:18.4	You know what?
1:19.4	I'm like an episode. The Hello and welcome once again to the roundtable your weekly publishers and
1:48.2	editors podcast here at the American Mind I'm your host Spencer Clavin features editor of the American Mind. I'm your host. Spencer Clavin features editor of the
1:54.2	American Mind and associate editor of the Claremont Review of Books. I am joined
1:58.8	this week by editor James Poulas and Managing Editor Seth Barron.
2:05.0	So the State of the Union address happened last week,
2:08.0	happened on Thursday right after we recorded,
2:11.0	and we are going to get to talk me about that, but much like the rest of the country, we have already moved on.
2:16.6	So we wanted to start today by talking about this big talk bill.
2:21.6	This is a bill that has now passed the House. It began in the Energy and Commerce
2:27.6	Committee where it got 50 yes votes and zero no on its way it's
2:35.0	on its way it's under consideration at the Senate.
2:40.0	What this bill would do if passed into law is it would require Tic Tox owner,
2:47.1	which a company called Bight Dance Limited, to divestS. assets and basically sell off its shares in order to continue to be allowed
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