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TikTok’s Actual Offense? Innovating While Not Being American

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 […]

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Lacking a Basis for Banning TikTok, Its Critics Resort to ‘Because…’

“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

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Our National Security Calls for Trump to Impede the TikTok Ban

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

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Actually Mike Gallagher, Congress Has Legislated TikTok’s Theft

“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,

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Those Who Would Ban TikTok Are More Dangerous Than TikTok

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

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The Real National Security Risk Is a TikTok Ban

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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An Envious U.S. Political Class Protests the Chinese Eating

“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

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Freedom Is the Only Way to Beat Authoritarianism

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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The Drafting of Tom Brady As a Metaphor for the Absurd TikTok Ban

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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TikTok Is American Owned. See Elon Musk’s Career If You’re Confused

The big credit card companies “should have killed us when they could have.” Those were the words of early PayPal employee Todd Pearson in Jimmy Soni’s excellent 2022 book, The Founders: The Story of PayPal, and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley.  Not only did the competition not see the future of payments through the unsteady rise

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