Supreme Court leans toward upholding law that could ban TikTok
Supreme Court leans toward upholding law that could ban TikTok
The court heard oral arguments on TikTok’s bid to block a law that would lead to its ban in the U.S. starting Jan. 19 if it isn’t sold by its Chinese owner.
A sensible approach would have been to regulate data collection and misinformation on social media in general, instead of writing a law that bans one specific platform. But oh well, what do I know.
Because the government wants the data collection. They just want it to be an american company so they get a copy of it all.
I know, I know. I was just dreaming of a world where they didn't suck.
Money on Zuck been making his own version of TikTok on Facebook. My wife been using it and after seeing my brother use TikTok I could see Zuck and Google both wanting the app banned. So they can push their own short shit clip apps.
Money on Zuck been making his own version of TikTok on Facebook.
That’s just Reels, already on Facebook and Instagram.
It has already happened. Every social media has their own version, they just need TikTok to die.
That sounds great... But then how would hegemony maintain its false narratives about the genocide in palestine, etc?
I'm curious if ByteDance could just create a new legal entity and call it TikTak or something.
So they'll overturn their own Citizen's United decision which pretty much explicitly allows TikTok to do what is being banned?
...right?
The law in question bans social media (of a sufficient size) being owned by an entity in a geopolitical rival nation.
Its relation to Citizens' United is pretty thin, really only sharing the concept of a corporation's First Amendment rights. But there's a lot of reason to doubt Bytedance's First Amendment argument holds legal water here, as the law is regulating business operation — not speech.
Just make all social media 18+ and be done with it.
that would be terrible for queer kids, a lot of who find their first communities in social media
It would also affect kids in general who only really get social interaction in places like video games. People seem to think video game platforms won't be affected (or don't think about them at all), but I got a lot of social interaction that way as a teen.
dadchats - a lawyer on tiktok - is leading toward the opposite conclusion