In a rare show of bipartisan consensus, the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor of a law that makes TikTok one step closer to a total ban in the US. The bill claims that as long as TikTok is owned by Bytedance, a Chinese company, this represents a national security threat from a “foreign adversary.” Kj Noh joins the show to clarify that the war on TikTok is not about concern for our data privacy, it’s a battle over who will control the internet, the production of knowledge, and its dissemination. Noh says TikTok presents a challenge to the US’s longstanding control of the narrative. Noh is a Peace activist with Pivot to Peace, and a scholar on the geopolitics of Asia.
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