Tech Policy Podcast

#371: So You Want to Ban TikTok

Episode Summary

Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) discusses, in exquisite detail, the First Amendment problems with H.R. 7521, the House bill to ban TikTok. Topics include: - Your First Amendment right to read crazy shit - TikTok ban bros: throwing spaghetti at the wall - Foreign broadcast-ownership rules: so passé - “iT’S nOT sPEech, It’S CoNDuCt” - H.R. 7521: Least. Tailored. Law. Ever. - Banning media: it’s what the other guys do - McCarthyism: so hot right now Links: A Breakdown of the Bizarre Factions Fighting Over the TikTok Ban Bill (https://tinyurl.com/yc25nbb9) Tech Policy Podcast #344: TikTok and the First Amendment (https://tinyurl.com/5n7kd9f7) Tech Policy Podcast #368: How the Government Gets Your Data (https://tinyurl.com/bdf5e25a) Tech Policy Podcast #289: The History, Use, and Abuse of the Fairness Doctrine (https://tinyurl.com/dp98arda) The only thing Congress can agree on is to ban TikTok!? (https://tinyurl.com/3fk954ye)

Episode Notes

Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) discusses, in exquisite detail, the First Amendment problems with H.R. 7521, the House bill to ban TikTok.

Topics include:

Links:

A Breakdown of the Bizarre Factions Fighting Over the TikTok Ban Bill

Tech Policy Podcast #344: TikTok and the First Amendment

Tech Policy Podcast #368: How the Government Gets Your Data

Tech Policy Podcast #289: The History, Use, and Abuse of the Fairness Doctrine

The only thing Congress can agree on is to ban TikTok!?