TikTok Asks Supreme Court to Block Law Banning Its U.S. Operations

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/us/politics/tiktok-ban-supreme-court-first-amendment.html

by 2OEH8eoCRo0 • 2 years ago

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BudaDude• 2 years ago

I truly wonder can be done at this point if congress already passed it into law and judges have sided with congress.

At the minimum it would be nice if some actual concrete evidence came out to why it was banned. Not just more "It's a Chinese spying app that knows you like watching brainrot and its bad"

BizarroLand• 2 years ago

If the first amendment goes, so does the rest of the amendments and probably the constitution with it.

This isn't the America of 1776. We have turned from a handful of somewhat consolidated groups that could be treated with a broad brush into 360 million screaming individuals with no leader and no cohesive American dream for the next 30 years to shoot for.

I don't use tiktok, I don't care for it.

But I don't think that congress should have the right to take away their ability to operate, only that they should have the ability to not allow exfiltration of American PII to other nations.

in-pursuit• 2 years ago

The argument against TikTok has little to do with PII.

corimaith3• 2 years ago

Whelp, this is a bi-partisan congress who voted for it, the House representative and Senator you voted for probably supported this act too. And it's not a narrow majority, it's an overwhelming one. And the courts fully support it to.

When you were voting for your representative, would it not have been probable to know they likely would have supported the act? This bill and backlash has been building for years. It's unambiguously clear that America has made her choice here. There is no risk of "authoritarianism" because the overwhelming political plurality is in consensus. Nor is there any concrete political opposition or protests.

Thankfully, the internet isn't real life, and I'm hard pressed to know of the majority complaining here really are Americans with the best interests of America at heart or if they're mad because the interests of a certain country gets harmed here.

smt88• 2 years ago

TikTok said it wasn't exfiltrating data and turned out to be lying.

I don't really understand the argument that this is a First Amendment issue. TikTok was asked to protect its users from CCP surveillance. It didn't. Now the US is forcing it to cut ties with the CCP.

TikTok can continue to operate if it complies. Its owners and users have lost no freedom to speak either way.

TikTok Asks Supreme Court to Block Law Banning Its U.S. Operations

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