...because social media isn't nearly as lethal as cocaine?
Because picking on China is good politics especially in the Center and Southern US. But social media in general is just too popular with the general public.
The issue is the implications that ID checks have on anonymous speech. There is no option to just visit another site if ID checks are law. If an individual site wants to check for IDs okay, but the issue is the state requiring it for ALL social platforms.
This is irrelevant to verification for porn sites. Children are barred from entering adult bookstores, and IDs are checked at a variety of stores. Verify with Wallet is used for car rentals, alcohol-related purchases, and similar… not for social media (afaik). You may extrapolate the premise to other sites, but I’m not talking about them in my posts.
Well, that oranges colored guy joined TikTok a while back and that helped him get reelected with young generation via brainwashing, and now he pledged to stop the ban altogether. But like you said, there is no legal way for him to do it unless he tries to pull strings and even then, there is enough congressional support from both sides to override whatever he does on this issue.
These laws don't just cover those websites, they apply (in Texas's case) to any website that hosts content where at least a third of content would be considered inappropriate for minors using "contemporary community standards" which is an extremely vague term that could be politically weaponized very easily. (And that is politically weaponized right now) A lot of these laws use vague language that makes it easy to be weaponized.
I would personally like this a lot. There's a lot of laws *cough cough* Patriot Act, that should be looked over again.
At least this threshold gives websites an opportunity to further moderate their content, and avoid the requirements. It’s certainly a heavy undertaking, but compliance is meaningless if the bar is set too low.
Nice sentiment but with the recent SCOTUS Presidential immunity ruling it seems a lot that balance of powers concept might have been seriously compromised.
You can use VPN to get around country limitations associated with video streaming services, what is the difference from avoiding national geofencing that limits downloading?
Exactly! Why do we allow the government to dictate what others can do, at the point of a gun, with their body? We need to vote better.
No, it would be very bad thing. There is reason why SCOTUS rarely, if not ever overturn laws or constitution passed by congress: they are the ultimate rule makers in federal laws. If scotus overturns the laws passed by congress, the whole meaning of having the legislative branch becomes completely moot because then the judicial branch becomes the ultimate lawmaker.
Kids who don't know better and don't really care and not so well developed adults 😏
Should be banned world wide!!!
Popular social network TikTok did not receive a reprieve from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and it is still facing a ban that is set to be enacted in January, reports The Wall Street Journal.
TikTok and several of the social network's users challenged an April bill that is forcing Chinese company ByteDance to sell TikTok. The bill provided ByteDance with a nine-month period to sell TikTok to a company outside of China, and if the sale doesn't happen, TikTok won't be able to be distributed in the United States.
TikTok claimed that the bill was unconstitutional because it infringes on free speech, but the court rejected that claim.
While the ban is set to go into effect in January, TikTok is likely to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking an emergency stay. From there, the Supreme Court will decide whether to hear the case.
If TikTok is banned, Google, Apple, and other app distributors will not be able to provide the app for download, nor offer updates to the app. Internet hosting services will also be blocked from supporting the app, giving U.S. users no way to download it. TikTok users will, however, be able to keep using the app so long as it functions.
ByteDance does not plan to sell TikTok, and even if the company complied and did so, China would need to approve the sale. The Chinese government has made it clear that it will firmly oppose any sale of the TikTok app. ByteDance says that it would be impossible to give the TikTok source code to a new owner because it would take years for new engineers to become familiar enough with it to perform routine maintenance.
U.S. lawmakers want TikTok sold to a non-China company over concerns that the Chinese government could force ByteDance to hand over data from users in the United States, and there have also been suggestions that China could use TikTok to spread political propaganda.
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Article Link: TikTok Still On Track for January Ban as Appeals Court Upholds Ruling
