To anyone who listened to the oral arguments in the DC Circuit regarding the TikTok ban bill, it perhaps wasn’t a huge surprise that the DC Circuit today ruled to uphold the ban, but the resu…
To be clear, the right of free speech given in the first amendment is the right to express any opinion without fear of repercussions.
Not the case. The 1st Amendment provides freedom of speech without fear of repercussions by the U.S. government. We do not have the right to express any opinion without repercussions from literally any other source.
To be clear, the right of free speech given in the first amendment is the right to express any opinion without fear of repercussions.
There is no inherent right that your opinions must be given a platform, or that any particular platform has the right to exist.
The first amendment is entirely orthogonal to the question of whether or not TikTok should be allowed to operate in the US.
Well, except for the “corporate personhood” nonsense.
Fucking bullshit person hood. If it can’t be shot outside a hotel for crimes against humanity, it isn’t a person.
Yeah…I’d be alarmed about time travel if the founding fathers HAD strictly approved the concept of social media.
I’d like to say if they COULD have somehow been introduced to tiktok, they would have given up on founding America.
“THIS is what our work becomes???”
Not the case. The 1st Amendment provides freedom of speech without fear of repercussions by the U.S. government. We do not have the right to express any opinion without repercussions from literally any other source.