TNB Tech Minute: Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Shutdown
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 17 January 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:31.4 | Here's your TNB Tech Minute for Friday, January 17th. I'm Bell-Lin for The Wall Street Journal. The Supreme Court has unanimously |
| 0:41.7 | upheld a federal law requiring TikTok's Chinese owners to sell or shut down the social media app by |
| 0:49.1 | January 19th. The court cited with Congress's national security concerns over TikTok and its users claim that the ban violates the First Amendment. |
| 1:00.2 | Today's ruling means the platform used by over 170 million Americans could go dark, at least temporarily, on Sunday. |
| 1:09.3 | WSJ reporter Jess Braven spoke with our What's News podcast about the court's decision. |
| 1:14.5 | They focused on one of the two prongs that the government cited as justification for the law, |
| 1:20.9 | and that was the massive data collection that TikTok undertakes. |
| 1:25.6 | The area that they sidestepped was the other justification, which was |
| 1:29.9 | the ability of China or the Chinese owners or the Chinese government to manipulate the information |
| 1:36.4 | that TikTok serves up to Americans. The court really walked past that argument. |
| 1:42.7 | President-elect Trump and his allies are trying to find a political path forward to assuage |
| 1:48.0 | national security concerns and rescue the app. |
| 1:51.4 | In a TikTok video, CEO showed you thanked Trump for being committed to working to find a solution |
| 1:57.6 | that keeps it in the U.S. and he said TikTok would do everything in its power |
| 2:02.8 | to ensure that it thrives. The Biden administration has sanctioned a Chinese company that it said |
| 2:09.2 | was behind the vast salt typhoon cyber intrusions into U.S. telecom networks. The hacks swept up |
| 2:16.3 | phone calls of scores of U.S. government officials, |
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