Alex Pearlman, Pearlmania500 on TikTok, joins us to discuss the “RESTRICT Act,” the bipartisan piece of legislation that purportedly will ban TikTok but ultimately has much broader implications. We get into the threats it poses to individual privacy and free speech rights, how the rhetoric around TikTok is ultimately just a proxy for hawkish foreign policy and the hypocrisy from politicians claiming TikTok is harming kids while they simultaneously push through bills making it easier to send children into the workplace.
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