Fareed Zakaria: This is in a position to per chance per chance per chance restful send chills down every American’s backbone

FIRST HERE'S MY TAKE. I'M THE FATHER OF TWO YOUNG WOMEN, SO THERE'S A PART OF ME THAT WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED TO SEE TIKTOK BAND. IT IS A SCARILY ADDICTIVE APP WITH 150 MILLION US USUALLY LIST INCLUDING TWO OUT OF THREE TEENAGERS, BUT THE MORE CAREFULLY I THINK ABOUT IT,.

THE MORE I WORRY AND WHEN I LOOK AT THE LEGISLATION BEING PROPOSED THAT WOULD ENABLE THE GOVERNMENT TO BAN TIKTOK. I SEE A FRIGHTENING ORWELLIAN LAW. THAT SHOULD SEND CHILLS DOWN EVERY AMERICAN SPINE. THE ARGUMENT FOR BANNING TIKTOK IS STRAIGHTFORWARD. IT'S OWNED BY A.

CHINESE COMPANY AND COULD BE FORCED TO OBEY THE DICTATES OF THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT. THAT IS AN APPROPRIATE CONCERN, EVEN THOUGH THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT THIS HAS EVER HAPPENED. WHAT MALIGN BEHAVIOR COULD TIKTOK ENGAGING FIRST, IT COULD COLLECT DATA FROM ITS USERS AND SEND.

THAT OVER TO BEIJING. BUT IF BEIJING WANTS THAT INFORMATION, IT HAS MANY, MANY WAYS TO GET IT ALL. THE MOST POPULAR APPS COLLECT SOME KIND OF PERSONAL USER DATA, AND THEY ALL SHARE WITH THIRD PARTIES. THERE IS A MUCH BETTER WAY TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM. COMPREHENSIVE DATA.

PRIVACY LAW THAT WOULD PROTECT ALL AMERICANS DATA AND GIVE PEOPLE THE RIGHT TO STOP COMPANIES FROM USING MISUSING AND SELLING IT. UNFORTUNATELY TAKING ON BIG TECH IS A MUCH MORE DIFFICULT BATTLED AND BASHING CHINA. MOST TECHNOLOGISTS. I SPOKE TO FELT.

IT WOULD BE SIMPLE TO BLOCK INFORMATION TRANSFERS BY HOUSING ALL DATA AND US SERVERS AND MONITORING. IT'S USE SOMETHING TIKTOK HAS ALREADY COMMITTED TO DOING. GOOGLE AND OTHER AMERICAN TECH PLATFORMS OPERATE IN EUROPE . UNDER SIMILAR DATA RESTRICTIONS, THERE MIGHT EVEN.

BE BETTER TECHNIQUES THAT DO NOT ARTIFICIALLY DIVIDE DATA BY GEOGRAPHY. THE SECOND FEAR ABOUT TIKTOK IS THAT IT WOULD TRANSMIT ANTI AMERICAN INFORMATION THROUGH ITS PLATFORM, BECOMING A SUBTLE VEHICLE FOR CHINESE PROPAGANDA. SO HOW WOULD WE FEEL IF WE LEARNED THAT A CHINESE.

MEDIA COMPANY HAS STARTED A CABLE NEWS CHANNEL THAT BROADCASTS SOMETIMES ANTI AMERICAN MESSAGES? THAT IS ALREADY LEGAL. THE UNITED STATES HASN'T BANNED CHINA'S CCTV OR, FOR THAT MATTER. QATAR'S AL JAZEERA BOTH GOVERNMENT OWNED MEDIA PLATFORMS, IF WE BAN.

TIKTOK, WHERE WE ALSO BANNED CHINESE MEDIA COMPANIES FROM DISTRIBUTING PAMPHLETS OR BOOKS IN THE UNITED STATES, WHERE WE BAN ALL CHINESE VIDEO GAME COMPANIES, WHICH ARE GIANTS IN THE INDUSTRY. THE PREMISE OF AN OPEN SOCIETY IS THAT PEOPLE SHOULD BE FREE TO CONSUME WHAT.

INFORMATION THEY WANT AND THAT WE ARE STRONGER FOR IT. A BIPARTISAN GROUP OF SENATORS HAS PUT FORWARD LEGISLATION THAT WOULD MAKE IT EASY TO BAN ANY COMPANY IN WHICH ANY FOREIGN ADVERSARIES SUCH AS CHINA HAS ANY INTEREST. WHICH WILL COVER ALMOST ANY COMPANY THAT HAS ANY.

OPERATIONS IN CHINA OR SEVERAL OTHER COUNTRIES. THIS LAW WOULD GIVE VIRTUALLY UNLIMITED POWERS TO THE ADMINISTRATION TO PREVENT OR PUNISH ANY COMPANY THAT HAS TAKE OR INFORMATION PRODUCTS OR SERVICES THAT IN THE ADMINISTRATION'S VIEW. POSE AN UNDUE OR UNACCEPTABLE RISK TO.

THE NATIONAL SECURITY OF THE U. S. OR THE SAFETY OF U. S PERSONS . IF MEN WERE ANGELS JAMES MADISON WROTE IN THE FEDERALIST PAPERS, NO GOVERNMENT WOULD BE NECESSARY. IT DOES NOT TAKE A PARTICULARLY SKEPTICAL VIEW OF GOVERNMENT TO BE TERRIFIED BY THE IDEA OF GIVING IT THAT MUCH.

POWER. IMAGINE DONALD TRUMP AS PRESIDENT WITH THESE TOOLS AT HIS DISPOSAL. WE'RE LIVING IN TIMES WHEN STATE GOVERNMENTS ALREADY BANNING BOOKS BY THE HUNDREDS, WHEN SPEECH IS CONSIDERED A WEAPON, AND WHEN POLITICIANS OPENLY TALK ABOUT SHUTTING DOWN DANGEROUS IDEAS.

INCIDENTALLY, AS FOX NEWS ANCHOR LAURA INGRAM FULMINATE AGAINST TIKTOK. SHE MIGHT WANT TO KEEP IN MIND THAT FOX'S FORMER PARENT COMPANY, NEWS CORP WAS GRANTED A WAIVER FROM EXISTING RESTRICTIONS ON FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF MEDIA PLATFORMS. RUPERT MURDOCH, BY THE WAY,.

ARGUED THAT SUCH A WAIVER WASN'T EVEN NECESSARY, PRESUMABLY BECAUSE HE BELIEVED AMERICANS SHOULD GET FREE FLOWS OF INFORMATION NO MATTER THEIR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN. I SUPPORT MANY OF THE ADMINISTRATION'S EFFORTS TO COMPETE WITH CHINA BY INVESTING IN BUILDING AT HOME BY.

SHORING UP ALLIANCES ABROAD BY RESTRICTING CHINA'S ACCESS TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL TECHNOLOGIES AND BY BUILDING UP ON MILITARY DETERRENT. BUT THE KEY TO AMERICA'S SUCCESS AND DYNAMISM, DECADE AFTER DECADE HAS BEEN ITS OPENNESS, INNOVATION AND BELIEF IN THE VIGOROUS CONTEST OF IDEAS.

, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES. THAT'S WHY OUR TECHNOLOGY TENDS TO BE BETTER THAN THAT COMING OUT OF CLOSE SOCIETIES. WE SHOULD NOT LOSE THAT CONFIDENCE IN A PANIC OVER ONE CHINESE APP. FOR YEARS, WE BELIEVE, PERHAPS MISTAKENLY THAT AS CHINA OPENED UP ECONOMICALLY, IT WOULD BECOME.

MORE LIKE US. BUT LOOK AT WHERE WE ARE TODAY. WE HAVE EMBARKED ON CENTRAL ECONOMIC PLANNING WITH MASSIVE SUBSIDIES TO INDUSTRY AND NOW WE'RE PROPOSING DRACONIAN RESTRICTIONS ON THE FREE FLOW OF INF

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