TikTok users will just move to some other productivity wasting brain cell killing platform (e.g. Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, X, etc.). There are plenty out there.
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TikTok Ban Looking Likely After U.S. Supreme Court Hears Case
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Yes, but it still implicates the 1st Amendment rights of users creating and distributing content.
That’s why the law is strictly limited to TikTok. Every similar ban would require Congress to pass a new law, which is no easy task. So don’t worry.
No it doesn't. Users are free to use any other platform. No speech is being restricted here.
1st Amendment is a government limitation.
It's not, though. The law only bans ByteDance's ownership of TikTok, not TikTok the platform itself. It's ByteDance/TikTok's choice to shut down instead of divest that's affecting the 1A rights of their users.
True, and that does seem like the basis SCOTUS will use to keep the ban. But legal tricks aside, the users of TikTok will no longer be able to express themselves in the same way. Yes, that's ByteDance's fault, but the effect is a loss of free expression imho. You can say they can go to another platform, sure, but what about all the historical content users have posted on TikTok. That's just gone. All that free expression vanished retroactively. And that's not ByteDance's free expression that's been disappeared, it's Americans' expression who have first amendment rights.
There are multiple free platforms that accomplish the exact same thing as tiktok.
This kind of... KIND OF... feels like the beginning of the view I use to put on other countries actively blocking websites or services. I haven't followed the details enough, but between this and the issues surrounding DJI/Drone use, I'm not sure I agree with the direction it's going.
That's why the main focus of the law is a sale of TikTok and not a ban.
Exactly. The fact that I'm seeing the same TikTok videos on other platforms like Instagram, X, and YouTube shorts proves that no free speech is being suppressed here
So money doesn't interest them, but the data does. (This is the CCP, so we know freedom of speech is viewed as a threat, so it's not that.)
That was exactly the wrong argument to make. Are they that clueless or that arrogant?
You do realize that EVERY social media app/website that is owned by a US-based entity is banned in China, right?
You are deriding the US for banning TikTok or Huawei but China bans and/or seriously hamstrings many US companies from operating within their borders.
I say that the US should allow TikTok once China allows Google, Facebook and Twitter (X) to operate in their country. I won't hold my breath for that though.
Dictator Trump will come to the rescue and save that hot garbage from being banned. He plays both sides. Wanted it banned before and all for it. Now he doesn’t want it banned and trying to save it. The cesspool of today’s society will continue….
It's banning the Chinese owners from operating it.
If it is sold, it will be back in operation again.
There will be no proof until the day China decides to attack Taiwan and use TikTok to prevent the US from intervening.
But end users have no control over that, yet they have to suffer the repercussions in the form of a breach of their first amendment rights. Sure, going forward, they can post content elsewhere, but that historical free expression is gone, erased from history like it never existed.
Both Musk and Zuck must be thrilled that one of their biggest competitors is being pushed out of the US market. All those cozy dinners, bruised knees and sore throats at Mar-a-Lago are paying big dividends.
You need to recalibrate your definition of suffering.