What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - So ... Is TikTok Banned?
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🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The TikTok ban that has been floating around Washington since the last administration has been signed into law. What does that mean for users, creators and the court battles ahead?
Guest:
Louise Matsakis, reporter covering tech and China.
Dillon White, TikToker under the handle @dadchats
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| 0:00.0 | Dylan, why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself first with your name and Day Job. |
| 0:13.0 | For sure. |
| 0:14.0 | So first name is Dylan and last name is White. |
| 0:17.0 | My Day Job is I am a licensed attorney, |
| 0:21.0 | so that kind of encompasses everything from practicing to business development to have been a constitutional law professor. |
| 0:28.0 | And then how would people on TikTok know you? |
| 0:32.0 | TikTok know you? |
| 0:32.8 | TikTok, they're gonna know me more likely as dad chats. |
| 0:36.0 | Whoever invented the phrase, |
| 0:37.6 | Easy as taking candy from the baby, |
| 0:39.8 | never met my baby. |
| 0:41.4 | Does she look adorable in her little duck costume waddling around. |
| 0:46.0 | Absolutely. But underneath the yellow yarn and those fabulous feathers lies an addict, a fiend, a lollipop connoisseur. |
| 0:57.0 | Dylan, Dad Chats, has 1.9 million followers on Tik-Toc. |
| 1:02.0 | His wife Suzanne, also known as mom chats, has 1.2 million. |
| 1:06.0 | They got into Tic-Toc on a bet with students on the high school debate team they coached in Minnesota. |
| 1:13.0 | And one of them looked at me and said you're too old for Tik-Tock. |
| 1:17.0 | Now granted, these are three high school students, right? |
| 1:20.0 | So like obviously I am a million years old in comparison to them. |
| 1:23.0 | But I was like, all right, you know what, I'll take that bet because I'm offended that you think that I'm that old. |
| 1:28.0 | And I said, give me 30 days and I bet that I'll be more popular than you. |
| 1:32.0 | And day 29, I had some random video that got like |
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