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.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Paris will be speaking in Montreal on March 23 and March 26.
- Jacob wrote about the GOP megadonor who could benefit from whatever happens to TikTok.
- 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.
- Sam Biddle wrote about how Facebook knows they violated Palestinian human rights.
- Byron Tau explained how US government agencies are getting people’s personal data from data brokers.
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