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The Potential US TikTok Ban | Clay Shirky @TED #tiktok

Social media theorist Clay Shirky unpacks why the US is trying to ban TikTok, what it means for the app’s users and creators and the implications for national security, freedom of speech, US-China relations and more. Watch the full live here: #TED #TEDTalks #tiktok

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Social media theorist Clay Shirky unpacks why the US is trying to ban TikTok, what it means for the app’s users and creators and the implications for national security, freedom of speech, US-China relations and more. Watch the full live here:

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  1. @Actress_Monica_Biel

    January 9, 2025 at 7:02 pm

    I think it’s super interesting how the potential TikTok ban could reshape social media as we know it! ???? What are your thoughts on how this might affect creators and users?

  2. @yoyoplays954

    January 9, 2025 at 7:03 pm

    i hope it passes and gets banned

    • @user-gj7ud7op1n

      January 12, 2025 at 2:49 am

      Yt shorts user lmao

  3. @kylepruette1942

    January 9, 2025 at 7:33 pm

    Why does anyone want to bann TikTok?!

    • @adrianriebelbrummer5792

      January 9, 2025 at 7:48 pm

      Because it is a chinese company, and the chinese government could use it as a spying tool in the US.

    • @MrStredders

      January 9, 2025 at 7:53 pm

      Because it passes users’ information and metadata back to the Chinese government.

    • @gerardoa9179

      January 9, 2025 at 8:11 pm

      ​@@MrStredders Same as Google , Facebook and other social medias? It’s just a double standard because is Chinese

    • @gerardoa9179

      January 9, 2025 at 8:11 pm

      ​​@@MrStredders Same as Google , Facebook and other social media apps? It’s just a double standard because is Chinese

    • @kylepruette1942

      January 9, 2025 at 9:02 pm

      ​@MrStredders in simple terms please?

    • @MrStredders

      January 9, 2025 at 10:03 pm

      @@gerardoa9179 buddy it’s not my ban. Go speak to your government.

  4. @troophq

    January 9, 2025 at 7:56 pm

    How is a Chinese company able to use the constitution as an argument?

    • @jsamdog

      January 9, 2025 at 8:53 pm

      Correct me if I’m wrong but aren’t all companies operating in a foreign country also expected to follow the rules of that country? That would include policies and constitution

    • @rb_tree-r5b

      January 9, 2025 at 10:23 pm

      TikTok US is a US company. The argument of DOJ resides in the fact that ByteDance holds 20% of TikTok’s stake.

    • @VERCINGET0RIX

      January 11, 2025 at 9:31 am

      Because the ban violates americans citizens’ rights. Free speech isnt only the right to speak, its the right to hear also.

  5. @ramirosoto6069

    January 9, 2025 at 8:29 pm

    Other countries should do the same thing, banning all US social media.

    • @shield_maiden_

      January 9, 2025 at 9:42 pm

      X for sure

    • @Alexer11222

      January 10, 2025 at 4:46 am

      bro life would be so boring

    • @winterwistt

      January 11, 2025 at 1:32 am

      You’re literally using a social media app RIGHT NOW

    • @Notcobra66

      January 13, 2025 at 5:23 pm

      ​@Alexer11222 It’s time to rethink your life then, if you think life would be boring without social media please step outside for once dude.

  6. @BallyBoy95

    January 9, 2025 at 8:44 pm

    How is this even a debate? This is the literal definition of the exercise of the First Amendment.

    If people want to post their content on TikTok. Then let them.
    If the Deep State is threatened by even that, then this will be recorded in the books, as a pivotal event in the unorganised majority finally realising their rulers don’t have their best interests at heart.

    You really couldn’t make it any clearer. No amount of anti-China hysteria will make this pill an easy swallow.

    Black pill everyone simultaneously with the TikTok ban, and the rest is history.

  7. @oybek1207

    January 9, 2025 at 11:23 pm

    Useless social media
    Hope it will be banned all over the world

  8. @roger4880

    January 10, 2025 at 2:01 am

    Any CCP company needs banning

  9. @Chethakmp3

    January 10, 2025 at 5:51 am

    Crazy world

  10. @nobodycares85

    January 10, 2025 at 7:06 am

    For a government trying to ban an app, I have this to say: VPN. People can use vpn to access forbidden apps via an ip address from another country. Good luck

    • @MrElvis1971

      January 10, 2025 at 11:41 am

      Yeah, it’s pretty easy to completely hide your online entity. Even more than a VPN

    • @VERCINGET0RIX

      January 11, 2025 at 9:29 am

      They will ban vpn’s next. Watch and see. The U.S., the entire “democratic west” in fact, is taking an authoritarian turn which accelerated during the pandemic. Vpn’s make piracy harder to crackdown on. Vpn’s make mass surviellance trickier. Theyre itching to ban VPN’s and all theyre waiting for is a justification – which the tiktok ban will give them.

    • @VERCINGET0RIX

      January 11, 2025 at 10:11 am

      Those will be banned too. After they ban telegram, which comes after tiktok.
      Free speech is ????

    • @sykessaul123

      January 13, 2025 at 6:27 pm

      But most people aren’t going to want to do that. They’ll just move to the alternatives like YT Shorts and Instagram because it’s more convenient than installing, possibly paying for a VPN to allow you to access TikTok.

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