The Harvard Law School event featured a debate on TikTok's national security risks, focusing on concerns regarding data privacy and the application's ties to its Beijing-based parent, ByteDance. Professor Alan Rozenshtein warned that TikTok could be manipulated to flood American users with disinformation in geopolitical conflicts. Anupam Chander countered that the TikTok law raises First Amendment issues, with the app arguing that the legislation violates its speech protections. The discussion underscored the complex interplay between national security and free speech in the digital landscape.
"Imagine that the United States and China get into a shooting war over Taiwan. Suddenly the concern would be that TikTok would be flooded with pro-Chinese, anti-Taiwan and anti-American content."
"There may be no smoking gun yet, but the gun is assembled, it's loaded, it's on the table, and it's pointed. You're much closer to this nightmare scenario than you might expect."
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