167. Mic Drop: TikTok’s day in Appeals Court

167. Mic Drop:TikTok 在上诉法院的日子

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2024-09-20

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TikTok’s lawyers were in a U.S. Court of Appeals this week trying to push back against a law that requires the popular video app to sell its American subsidiary to a non-Chinese owner or be banished from app stores. Alan Rozenshtein, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota, and expert in lawfare, explains what’s at stake.

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  • On September 16, a federal appeals court heard oral arguments in what could be a landmark case.

  • Case number 20 411 13, et al.

  • TikTok Inc.

  • And Bytedance Limited.

  • TikTok is challenging a new law that puts nothing less than the app's very survival in the crosshairs.

  • Good morning, your honor.

  • Thank you, and may it please the court.

  • The law before this court is unprecedented.

  • And its effect would be staggering.

  • The lawyers had gathered to address whether Congress could pass a law that would require Bytedance, TikTok's chinese parent, to sell the popular app to a non chinese company.

  • The Justice Department says TikTok's connection to China to a hostile foreign power justifies the move.

  • Specifically, they said they worry that sensitive personal data on Americans, like their location, could end up in the hands of the chinese government.

  • Or as we reported in Tuesdays episode, that the Chinese Communist Party could use the apps algorithm to influence politics or peddle misinformation to Americans.

  • I think the idea that chinese influence over TikTok through ByteDance or through whatever, I think we can say that that is not at all a speculative risk.

  • I think that's pretty obvious.

  • This is Alan Rosenstein.

  • He's a law professor at the University of Minnesota, has been following the TikTok case closely.

  • I think that we don't have perfect options here either.

  • You know, we're either accepting a huge national security risk or on the other hand, we are again interfering in people's expressive activities.

  • But I think that, you know, sometimes you have to choose between two bad options.