Some of the falls made MTV’s “Jackass” look like a walk in the park. To my amazement, there were dozens of videos of people trying to walk over stacks of milk crates. As a geriatric millennial, I don’t see all the latest viral content, so I pulled it up on the class projector. I asked what was going on and they alerted me to the milk crate challenge on TikTok. In 2021, I walked into my Introduction to Popular Culture class to find a group of students reacting to some videos. For me, a scholar of popular culture and digital technology, the TikTok ban on government computers in Texas limits my ability to teach classes and conduct research. The current bans prohibit professors from using a tool that helps to find and expose truth. At their core, federal and state bans of TikTok on government computers and networks - including at schools and colleges - impinge on academic freedom, which the American Association of University Professors asserts “depends upon the free search for truth and its free exposition” for both teaching and research. TikTok bans are nationalistic policies that do not address security issues, but limit the free movement of information.
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