• Mike Pence: Reversal on TikTok ban latest example of why he cannot endorse Donald Trump

    Former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday whacked his former boss for what he described as “walking away” from conservative principles.

  • Better Laws, Not Bans: Why a TikTok Ban is a Bad Idea

    New legislation making its way through the U.S. Congress has placed a TikTok ban back on the public agenda. The app is already prohibited on government devices in Canada, the government has quietly conducted a national security review, and there are new calls to ban it altogether from the Canadian market. While it might be tempting for some politicians to jump on the bandwagon, a ban would be a mistake. There are legitimate concerns with social media companies, but there simply hasn’t been...

  • TikTok urges US users to call senators to vote no on TikTok ban

    TikTok displayed a notification to some U.S. users on Friday, urging them to call their senators and ask them to vote no to a bill that would ban the popular short-form video app if it is not divested from Chinese tech company ByteDance. Tell your Senator how important TikTok is to you. Ask them to vote no on the TikTok ban, the notice said, which allowed users to enter their zip code to locate their senator's phone number. Now, if the Senate votes, the future of creativity and communities...

  • NBC News Cites TikTok-Funded Expert To Slam 'Authoritarian' TikTok Ban

    NBC News is warning its readers that a U.S. ban on TIkTok could "embolden authoritarian censorship"—and using a think tank that has taken more than $100,000 from the Chinese-owned app to do so.

  • The case against the TikTok ban bill

    A year ago, I visited TikTok’s US headquarters to preview its new “transparency center,” a central piece of its multibillion-dollar effort to convince the US its meme factory isn’t a national security threat. That effort has failed. The company’s negotiations with the government stalled out and the company is now facing its most serious threat to a future in the United States yet. Last Wednesday, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill that, if passed into law, would force...

  • Can Congress ban TikTok?

    Congress now wants to give the president of the United States the lawful power to suppress websites he thinks are spying on their users or permitting foreign governments to influence what Americans see on the sites.

  • Taibbi: Why The TikTok Ban Is So Dangerous

    Taibbi: Why The TikTok Ban Is So Dangerous Authored by Matt Taibbi via Racket News, Did they tell you the part about giving the president sweeping new powers? It’s funny how things work. Last year at this time, Americans overwhelmingly supported a ban on TikTok. Polls showed a 50-22% overall margin in support of a ban and 70-14% among conservatives. But Congress couldn’t get the RESTRICT Act passed. As the public learned more about provisions in the bill, and particularly...

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    The Grim Reality of Banning TikTok

    Scott Nover explains how banning TikTok is an affront to free speech.

  • Glenn Beck does NOT support the TikTok ban. Here's why

    Congress is debating a bill that would force the Chinese company that owns TikTok to either divest from the app or face a TikTok ban in America. While the app itself has likely changed an entire generation for the worse, Glenn Beck is not a fan of the bill. After going over the bill line by line with Chip Roy, who co-sponsored the bill, and Thomas Massie, who opposes it — Glenn says “there’s some disturbing things in there.” One part of the bill is called “The Protecting Americans from...

  • House of Representatives Approves TikTok Ban

    On March 13, the House of Representatives passed a landmark bill that could see TikTok banned in the US with a six-month sell deadlline.

  • The Morning After: TikTok bans and Airbnb cams

    The biggest story this week was TikTok and the US government going at it again, with the house voting in favor of a bill that could force TikTok's parent company to sell to a US owner or face getting banned outright. Don't worry, though; your elected officials didn't waste the chance to embarrass themselves, as usual. Meanwhile, Mike Tyson comes out of retirement to box for Netflix. He'll face-off against Jake Paul, which I feel is best represented by this Punch-Out! tweet.   This week's...

  • Prejudicial Bans: Congress Tosses over TikTok

    How delicious is political hypocrisy. Abundant and rich, it manifests in the corridors of power with regularity. Of late, there is much of it in the US Congress, evident over debates on whether the platform TikTok should be banned in the United States. Much of this seems based on an assumption that foreign companies are More