Prof. Alan Rozenshtein Quoted on CNN About How the New Administration Could Affect the Government’s Relationship With Tech Companies

Professor Alan Rozenshtein was quoted on CNN about how the incoming Trump administration could mean big changes in the government’s relationship with tech companies in ways that could affect users, ranging from the content they might see online to whether they could be confronted with discriminatory AI systems. Specifically, about law passed earlier this year to ban  TikTok ban unless its parent company divests it, Prof. Rozenshtein said that Trump could ask Congress to repeal the law, although that would likely fail. From there, he likely has two options: he could direct the attorney general not to enforce the law or announce that TikTok is no longer subject to the law. The first approach would involve signaling to TikTok’s tech partners like Apple — which stand to face fines under the law if it continued to host TikTok on its app store — that they “should feel free to continue business with TikTok. But again, if you’re the general counsel of Apple, does that really give you a lot of confidence? You’re still violating the law. Trump is very mercurial.”