US Gov’t Wants to Ban TikTok and Control Everything We See and Think

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.

“The US is trying to game the market in favor of its own companies and narrative dominance by violating almost every international law and doing away with any notion of a fair marketplace”