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🗓️ 15 January 2025
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Tiktok To SHUT DOWN On Sunday As SCOTUS Fails To Issue Decision On Ban, Trump Says HOLD UP
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0:00.0 | TikTok is preparing to shut down this Sunday after a ban was signed last year. And as of today, |
0:08.2 | the Supreme Court has issued no decision. Now, they may still issue an injunction. We don't know |
0:14.9 | exactly what's going to happen. But if there is no intervention, this is it. Now, some have |
0:20.7 | questioned why TikTok would make this move. |
0:23.4 | There's ways to mitigate the damage. |
0:25.8 | They could just divest from bite dance, which is the Chinese own component of TikTok, but |
0:31.2 | they're not. |
0:32.0 | They're saying no, we will shut down. |
0:35.0 | And there's a big argument about whether or not TikTok can even be banned. |
0:39.7 | Do they have First Amendment constitutional rights in these United States? |
0:44.2 | Well, my friends, this could impact 112 million estimated users of TikTok in the United States. |
0:51.2 | It can cause a decent amount of economic damage as there's a lot of |
0:55.2 | young entrepreneurs who use the platform to make a living. But the question is still challenging. |
1:02.3 | Should we as the United States allow China, an adversary of this country, to operate what is |
1:08.7 | mass media in the United States? See, the argument is their algorithm |
1:12.6 | controls what young people in this country think. Why would we let China control such a large |
1:18.8 | portion of our economy? Not the biggest, but still a portion, especially one that could influence |
1:24.0 | politics. Well, the public is divided, my friends, but the issue here isn't so simple. |
1:30.6 | Conservatives were first to want to ban TikTok. |
1:33.6 | Then all of a sudden, liberals jumped on board saying they wanted to ban TikTok. |
1:37.8 | You've got a bipartisan effort. |
1:39.3 | And the question is, how did this happen? |
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