They’re probably going to find themselves having to explain what it means that a social media platform is itself engaged in speech, instead of functioning as a platform for others to speak. TikTok users, whose voices are allegedly curtailed by the ban, aren’t exactly prevented from going to another platform.
If they say that it’s Tiktok’s speech that’s curtailed, they’re going to have to explain carefully how they’re not a foreign influence operation.
The language of the first amendment is pretty stark, but the courts have always understood it has various limits.
They never thought it was a bad thing; they just put it back under the log that they hide their racism, genocidal bloodthirst, and unearned arrogance-- wait, they still call that “Exceptionalism”.
Sounds like some progressive commie hippie dippie talk!
Type a 2,000,000 word essay on why democrats are better then Republicans and say “Joe Biden is the most pro union president in American history” 69 times as penance for your transgressions against the congregation.
They’re probably going to find themselves having to explain what it means that a social media platform is itself engaged in speech, instead of functioning as a platform for others to speak. TikTok users, whose voices are allegedly curtailed by the ban, aren’t exactly prevented from going to another platform.
If they say that it’s Tiktok’s speech that’s curtailed, they’re going to have to explain carefully how they’re not a foreign influence operation.
The language of the first amendment is pretty stark, but the courts have always understood it has various limits.
McCarthyism’s back baby!
It never went away.
Yeah, but there was a period where liberals thought it was a bad thing.
They never thought it was a bad thing; they just put it back under the log that they hide their racism, genocidal bloodthirst, and unearned arrogance-- wait, they still call that “Exceptionalism”.
Yeah, you’re right. I should have said there was a time when they claimed to think it was a bad thing
Uh yeah? Destroying people’s careers and lives just because they might be a communist is a massive breach of our rights.
Sounds like some progressive commie hippie dippie talk!
Type a 2,000,000 word essay on why democrats are better then Republicans and say “Joe Biden is the most pro union president in American history” 69 times as penance for your transgressions against the congregation.
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Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the TikTok community?
It would be if McCarthy’s hearings were full of actual KGB agents.