US President Joe Biden signed a law that will force TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to sell the app, or it will be banned in the US. Ben Norton explains how this is part of Washington's economic war, aimed at protecting Big Tech monopolies in Silicon Valley.
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0:00 Biden signs law to ban TikTok
1:39 US tech war on China
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6:38 Protectionism or economic war?
8:30 Silicon Valley lobbied against TikTok
9:37 Donald Trump tried to ban TikTok... before doing 180
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13:42 US trade war with Japan in 1980s
15:38 "Free market" hypocrisy
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19:39 Outro
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