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The TikTok Ban Shows What’s Wrong With The Internet
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17:35Now PlayingIs what TikTok does any different than other social media sites?
As the Tech Oversight Project points out, US-based companies like Meta, Amazon, and Google have also pushed “harmful content with predatory algorithms, aided U.S. adversaries and worked against U.S. national interests at home and abroad, and failed to protect users’ personal data.” TikTok is not an outlier.
Banning or pseudo-banning the app in the U.S. does not actually get at the cause of the harm that many tech companies cause. Furthermore, selling TikTok to a U.S.-based billionaire certainly won’t solve any broader privacy and data problems. We spoke with tech journalist Jacob Silverman, author of “Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud”, and is working on a new book about the right-wing lurch of Silicon Valley and Big Tech.
No one has more to lose (or to gain?) from the sale of TikTok to the biggest donor to the 2024 election so far: Jeffery Yass. US-based billionaire Jeffery Yass has a personal share in ByteDance of 7%, worth roughly $21 billion. Is rumored Trump may even tap Yass as his Treasury Secretary. (Watch how quickly that anti-China rhetoric will go out the window if TikTok is not forced to sell.) We’ll discuss this and more on The Bitchuation Room podcast and why issues around tech affect nearly every aspect of our political and economic lives.
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