Ban on TikTok and monopoly on iPhone

Just a few weeks in the past, it appeared just like the US authorities was shifting rapidly in direction of banning TikTok. A committee of the Home of Representatives voted unanimously in favor of a invoice that will enable the app to be both banned or offered, earlier than the broader Home handed the identical invoice, and even President Joe Biden additionally mentioned he would signal the invoice if it did. Hit his desk. Then, the momentum simply…stopped. The invoice is in limbo and TikTok remains to be right here, whereas debate rages over what ought to occur to the massively in style platform.

In the meantime, the federal government filed a landmark antitrust case towards Apple, accusing it of unlawful monopolistic conduct in all the things from digital wallets to messaging to… tremendous apps. It is a broad, advanced grievance, and it makes clear that there’s a lot we nonetheless don't know – and the street forward for this case is lengthy.

on this subject of The Vergecast, we focus on each of those conditions and, specifically, all your suggestions on our protection over the previous few weeks. We've had some heated debates about what ought to occur with TikTok and whether or not the iPhone is known as a monopoly — and your ideas and reactions are simply as heated. So we spend your entire present listening to your voicemails from the Vergecast hotline (+1 866-VERGE11, name us and say hi there!), wanting on the newest on each tales and making an attempt to determine the place issues go from right here. Are.

If you wish to study extra about all of the subjects mentioned on this episode, listed below are some hyperlinks to get you began, beginning with the primary on Apple's antitrust case: