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Aug 3, 2024, 5:06:34 PM8/3/24

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The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly yesterday to require the Chinese owner of TikTok to sell the platform, or be banned from the United States. Most Texas Congress members supported the bill.

On the flip side of that, though, you have a bipartisan group of progressives and some Republicans who are saying that the answer to this, even if there is a national security risk, is not to ban a social media platform. And in fact, there have been concerns raised by many of its users that this quashes their free speech, right?

I thought it was really fascinating with this push to Congress that you were just talking about there. That may have backfired, in fact, because some members of Congress see this as China using its influence through TikTok to try to keep a foothold in the U.S. But I guess a lot of folks are scratching their heads about whether the U.S. government really has the power to ban a specific social media platform.

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