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Smoke and Phone Screens: a TikTok Ban Isn’t About Protecting Americans’ Privacy

company. Their reasoning? Privacy, apparently.  H.R. 7521 is born out of a fear that ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, could be compelled by Beijing government officials to use their platform…

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Guest Post: Why Free Markets Are Incompatible with the Surveillance State

…RT4. I started day trading in the Fall of 2020. My trades were for just a few dollars each—with commission-free trading, you can do that kind of thing. I was…