Right and Left, Republicans and Democrats brought great shame on themselves with their efforts to ban TikTok. Pizza Hut crystalizes the previous truth. But before discussing Pizza Hut, it should be said that free speech means freedom to access any and all information that informs that speech. Which means efforts to ban TikTok on […]
TikTok Deal or None, Pizza Hut Reveals the Shame of the TikTok Ban Read More »
Ten days ago the shares of Nvidia corrected 17 percent. How could this have happened to such an “owned” and analyzed company? The answer, at least as of now, is that surprise over inexpensively trained and very capable DeepSeek forced investors to at least rethink Nvidia’s long-term dominance. The news on January 26th gave investors
TikTok’s Actual Offense? Innovating While Not Being American Read More »
“We have access to information that you don’t have.” That’s one way Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (1916-2009) explained a Vietnam War that not everyone supported. The recently passed writer and cartoonist Jules Feiffer quipped at the time that McNamara’s explanation reminded him of his “mother’s answer when I asked her to give me
Lacking a Basis for Banning TikTok, Its Critics Resort to ‘Because…’ Read More »
Writing about antitrust law recently, the excellent Holman Jenkins observed that “At best it’s a criminal waste of talent. At worst, it’s deeply worrisome that any law school graduate aspires to participate in an intellectually corrupt shakedown machine that exists primarily to keep itself employed.” Would it that more would apply Jenkins’s antitrust analysis to
Our National Security Calls for Trump to Impede the TikTok Ban Read More »
“Congress Didn’t Ban TikTok.” That’s the title of Mike Gallagher’s latest column in the Wall Street Journal. The former congressman from Wisconsin is correct that Congress didn’t ban TikTok, it’s doing much worse: Congress is attempting a taking of TikTok. How we know the above to be true can be found in Gallagher’s column. He writes that “through TikTok,
Actually Mike Gallagher, Congress Has Legislated TikTok’s Theft Read More »
Adam Smith’s observation that “the sole use of money is to circulate consumable goods” cannot be repeated enough. It explains so much, and in particular it explains why world leaders were so eager to convene at Bretton Woods in 1944 so that the world’s currencies could be pegged to a dollar that was defined
Those Who Would Ban TikTok Are More Dangerous Than TikTok Read More »
At issue before the Supreme Court this week is whether the national security implications of TikTok outweigh our right to freedom of speech. The belief here is we better cling to our First Amendment. Elon Musk’s motivations for purchasing Twitter were to ensure there was a place to have free and open debate on
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“The greatest fever of all was aspiration, a belief in the sheer possibility to remake a life.” That’s what Evan Osnos wrote in Age of Ambition, his remarkable 2014 book about life in emerging China. Osnos reported that as of 2014 the Chinese were second only to Americans when it came to the purchase of
An Envious U.S. Political Class Protests the Chinese Eating Read More »
Andy Kessler writes in his latest Wall Street Journal column that the U.S. “is strong precisely because we don’t all think the same way. New ideas come from new ways of thinking.” Kessler puts it so well. We individuals generally see the present and future very differently, and it’s this very division praised by Kessler that powers
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TikTok has asked for an injunction so the Supreme Court or the incoming Trump administration may consider its argument that forcing its ownership sale violates the First Amendment. Given what’s at stake, it only seems appropriate that it’s granted. For users and content creators of this platform, what is key to be aware of is
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