TikTok Ban Backups: 6 Similar Apps for Your Daily Dose of Fun The legal firestorm heats up again with legislation being signed to ban TikTok. Here are other apps worth downloading to get your fix. 04/28/2024 - 2:00 am | View Link
RFK Jr. threatens to challenge TikTok ban: It’s just a ‘smoke screen’ His comments come just days after President Biden signed a $95 billion national security package that includes language to ban TikTok in the U.S. if the app’s Chinese parent company ... Kennedy said. 04/26/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
TikTok Ban: ByteDance Denies Report That It's Considering Selling App ByteDance said a report that it’s mulling the sale of a majority stake in TikTok’s American business — after the U.S. adopted a law forcing it to divest its ownership position or face a ban of the app ... 04/26/2024 - 3:01 am | View Link
TikTok ban: U.S. plan to force sale faces First Amendment, logistical hurdles Before a forced sale or ban of TikTok takes effect, experts expect the company to take legal recourse against the U.S. government. 04/26/2024 - 2:42 am | View Link
ByteDance would rather shut TikTok in the US than sell if legal challenge against ban law fails (report) Citing sources, Reuters reports that TikTok’s parent ‘would prefer’ to shut the app down in the US if court challenge is ... 04/25/2024 - 8:47 am | View Link
"Human beings had a play-based childhood from time immemorial," says author Jonathan Haidt. What caused teen mental health decline is "between 2010 and 2015, phones, screens come sweeping in The most important thing that parents can do is delay the age at which their child gets immersed in internet culture."
Fareed hosts a spirited debate on the House bill that could lead to a US ban on TikTok, with the American Enterprise Institute's Kori Schake and Glen Gerstell, former general counsel for the National Security Agency. They discuss national-security risks the Chinese-owned app might pose given its many American users.
A new government report warns that advanced Artificial Intelligence systems could pose an "extinction-level threat" to humans, and that the US must intervene. "I think we should be mindful of it," says Ret. Admiral James Stavridis. But he adds, "there have been big inventions in the past - the printing press, electricity, the internet - all of these have been a decried for the possibility of nefarious activity."