#TikTok: Unneeded,Unacceptable, Unknown threat. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
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🗓️ 16 March 2024
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#TikTok: Unneeded,Unacceptable, Unknown threat. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2024/03/15/the-tiktok-ban-is-truly-an-issue-of-national-security/?sh=29fa275a7ca0
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| 0:28.0 | I'm John Batter with Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution |
| 0:32.0 | and I take this opportunity to ask Richard |
| 0:34.3 | about Tik-Toc. He writes for defining ideas for the Hoover. He teaches law at NYU and the |
| 0:38.6 | University of Chicago. And I'm going to guess that Richard is exactly where I am unknown about |
| 0:45.4 | Tik-Tok because it's not on my iPhone. I only hear stories, one of which is |
| 0:50.4 | that Tik-Tok can gather information, can surveil, can summarize where a person is |
| 0:59.9 | doing, not unlike what Instagram or Facebook are said to be able to do with their |
| 1:04.8 | apps as well. However, we have this from Singapore. The Chinese government is |
| 1:09.4 | signaling that it won't allow a for sale of TikTok, limiting options for the apps owners |
| 1:14.3 | as buyers begin lining up to bid for its US operations. |
| 1:18.0 | This follows a vote in the House of Representatives |
| 1:20.3 | overwhelmingly to say that Tik-Tok will be banned unless it is sold and |
| 1:25.9 | then there are some rules. The Senate has not voted so it is not an act of law and |
| 1:30.3 | yet the Chinese government perhaps acknowledging the fact that |
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