What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - TikTok Goes to Court
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🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The law has been passed and signed by the president: TikTok’s parent company must sell or divest from the app. But that’s not happening without a legal fight.
Guest: Emily Baker-White, investigative reporter at Forbes.
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| 0:00.0 | I have had so many conversations with Emily Baker-White about TikTok that I sort of think of her as Ms. TikTok now. |
| 0:11.5 | Okay, I'll take it. |
| 0:13.0 | When I have a TikTok question, I come to you. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm here for you. |
| 0:17.6 | Emily is a tech reporter at Forbes. |
| 0:19.7 | She covers TikTok and its parent company Bite Dance, and she's |
| 0:22.9 | currently writing a book about TikTok. We spoke earlier this week over Zoom. What are you going to be |
| 0:28.0 | doing with yourself on Monday morning? 9.30 my time, 6.30 yours. I will be awake. |
| 0:39.3 | Emily lives in California. |
| 0:45.1 | I live in a loft apartment with no separation between the bedroom and the main room, |
| 0:50.5 | so the lights will still be off for my partner, but I will have my little headphones hooked up to the computer, and I will be listening to oral argument in the D.C. |
| 0:55.3 | circuit between TikTok and bite dance as lawyers and lawyers at DOJ about the law that was passed |
| 1:03.1 | earlier this year that would require a divestiture of TikTok or would see TikTok band in the United |
| 1:09.1 | States. |
| 1:10.8 | You will remember the TikTok ban talked talked about for months on end, and then passed by Congress |
| 1:17.3 | in April and signed into law by President Biden shortly after that. |
| 1:21.7 | TikTok challenged the ban in court, and that takes us to Monday. |
| 1:26.6 | You and I have talked about the TikTok ban, and it's twists and turns and near-death |
| 1:34.0 | experiences so many times. |
| 1:37.3 | I wonder if you could tell me, like, what are the stakes in court on Monday? |
| 1:43.0 | The stakes are pretty big. |
| 1:44.0 | This does feel like the, like, sixth time we've had the same conversation. |
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