What the TikTok Ban Reveals About US Tech Policy

Paris Marx is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss the motivations behind the proposed TikTok ban and what the effort tells us about US tech policy.

Jacob Silverman is a tech journalist and the co-author of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud.

• Paris will be speaking in Montreal on March 23 and March 26.
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• Paris wrote about the geopolitics of the TikTok ban and what it says about US power.
• Taylor Lorenz broke down some of the disputed claims being made about TikTok.
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• Byron Tau explained how US government agencies are getting people’s personal data from data brokers.

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