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Wired’s Katie Drummond: The TikTok Ban Is “Rooted in Hypocrisy”; Plus, Hannah Goldfield on Culinary TikTok

2024/5/10
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David Remnick: 本期节目讨论了美国国会通过的TikTok禁令,该禁令规定除非TikTok的所有者ByteDance将其出售给经批准的买家,否则该应用程序将从美国应用商店中移除。ByteDance已对政府提起诉讼。 Katie Drummond: Drummond认为这项禁令是硅谷大型科技公司为了压制具有优越产品的外国竞争对手而发起的企业行动。她认为声称TikTok构成国家安全威胁的说法是夸大其词,并且基于假设和虚伪,并且拒绝全面审视各个社交媒体平台,并以相同的谨慎和精确度来对待所有平台。她认为,政府应该更加透明,并对所有科技平台进行平等的监管。她还指出,美国政府的行为与中国政府限制访问美国科技平台的行为类似,这令人担忧。她认为,目前缺乏足够的信息来判断TikTok禁令背后的真正动机,并且可能与游说活动和对中国的偏见有关,而不是真正的国家安全担忧。她认为,如果TikTok被出售给美国公司,但算法不被出售,那么其功能将会大打折扣。她还指出,禁止TikTok对拜登政府的政治影响是不利的,因为它会影响年轻选民。她认为政府在禁止TikTok的同时继续使用它进行竞选活动是虚伪的。最后,她最怀念TikTok作为新闻传播和故事讲述平台的作用。 Katie Drummond: Drummond认为这项禁令是硅谷大型科技公司为了压制具有优越产品的外国竞争对手而发起的企业行动。她认为声称TikTok构成国家安全威胁的说法是夸大其词,并且基于假设和虚伪,并且拒绝全面审视各个社交媒体平台,并以相同的谨慎和精确度来对待所有平台。她认为,政府应该更加透明,并对所有科技平台进行平等的监管。她还指出,美国政府的行为与中国政府限制访问美国科技平台的行为类似,这令人担忧。她认为,目前缺乏足够的信息来判断TikTok禁令背后的真正动机,并且可能与游说活动和对中国的偏见有关,而不是真正的国家安全担忧。她认为,如果TikTok被出售给美国公司,但算法不被出售,那么其功能将会大打折扣。她还指出,禁止TikTok对拜登政府的政治影响是不利的,因为它会影响年轻选民。她认为政府在禁止TikTok的同时继续使用它进行竞选活动是虚伪的。最后,她最怀念TikTok作为新闻传播和故事讲述平台的作用。

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David Remnick talks with Katie Drummond, the global editorial director of Wired magazine, about the TikTok ban that just passed with bipartisan support in Washington. The app will be removed from distribution in U.S. app stores unless ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, sells it to an approved buyer. TikTok is suing to block that law. Is this a battle among tech giants for dominance, or a real issue of national security? Drummond sees the ban as a corporate crusade by Silicon Valley to suppress a foreign competitor with a superior product. The claim that TikTok is a national-security threat she finds “a vast overreach that is rooted in hypotheticals and that is rooted in hypocrisy, and in … a fundamental refusal to look across the broad spectrum of social media platforms, and treat all of them from a regulatory point of view with the same level of care and precision.” Plus, the food writer Hannah Goldfield on salmon cooked in the dishwasher, and other highlights of culinary TikTok videos.