I'm swimming against the tide here will be interesting to see what Trump does if anything.
Libertarianism is a mental condition.
How to say I’m an idiot without saying I’m an idiot (I’m referring to you, RandFan based on this post).
Of course Paul’s are funded by TikTok money, so there’s that.
Most FReepers are statist.
haven’t followed this Rand. but didn’t the USSC just rule unanimously (that means Alito and Thomas, too) that this isn’t a free speech case? or are they all nuts?
maybe you can educate me. why isn’t the USSC defending TicTok because naturally i would take your position since this is a public square social media site. i know it’s a contributor to the toxic culture America is putting out today so the Chinese love it of course, but our toxic culture isn’t the fault of the Chinese. that’s entirely our fault as a people, imho.
Can they?? Since when...
The problem here is there are very few intelligent enough to actually understand it. They have allowed their hate and emotions to be used against themselves. They have allowed themselves to be manipulated and played for the fool. Just like the Patriot Act and so many others before...
“You understand that the legislation is broader than that?”
What specifically in the law gives the Feds the right to ban other social media? Does the law name Facebook or Free Republic, or anything beyond Tik-Tok?
Some of us mere mortals are not all seeing and all knowing as yourself, we would appreciate specific information, maybe cut and paste from the legislation the language that gives unlimited rights to the Gov’t to ban any media the Gov’t wants.
Libertarianism only works as a nationalistic philosophy. It does not work as an international philosophy, because open borders in a libertarian America would destroy America. The Founding Fathers would not have allowed Tik-Tok from a foreign nation to be used against the American people.
The Chinese believe in total warfare, which means that anything and everything that can be weaponized should be weaponized. Tik-Tok is a weapon from the Chinese government. It may seem like entertainment, and it is. However, it is used to gather data and make Americans waste their time on entertainment instead of being productive.
The only thing that should happen, if Tik-Tok is to survive is to buy it from the Chinese and go through its data like a fine tooth comb to deweaponize it. Otherwise, it should be allowed to perish.
How did the tiktok ban idea get started anyway. Trump may have iniated it in his first term, I’m afraid…
Chinese Intelligence has immediate access and collection through their 2017 Intel law and subsequent legal acts. Its why military recruiters, the DOD, and then the government first
FR is unlikely to fall under the control of/be purchased by a “foreign adversary nation”...so no the “TikTok law” cannot be used to censor FR:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521/text
https://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-10-armed-forces/10-usc-sect-4872/
Current “foreign adversary nations”: North Korea, the People’s Republic of China, Russian Federation and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Just discovered: Jim Thompson is Xi Jinping’s twin brother.;-)
*******It is astonding
Excellent post. Everyone here should support free speech. Unregulated speech. Speech not censored by the power mad corrupt tyrants who pretend to be our representatives in Washington. “Free” means you can say what you want where you want. When the tyrannical blob in DC “bans” a site where people simply gather to communicate, under no coercion, then that “blob” is the enemy, not a friend. And the site being “banned” could just as easily be FreeRepublic, or Rumble, or Telegram. It is Amazing and sickening how many dimwitted fake patriots cheer on the Deep State tyrants as they attack our God given rights that once were protected under our Constitution. I pray that everyone here takes a moment to pause and reflect on the value of freedom, how scarce it is in this world, and considers that maybe the Deep State also operates powerful propaganda machines that spew out lies tailored to each political flavor, including MAGA. The lie crafted for MAGA people now is “evil Chinese” and “evil Russians” must be destroyed along with anything they are connected with, like TikTok. The fact is this is a “narrative” that works well to create hate that then becomes a demand that our own freedom of speech be limited because the “boogeyman” in China is so bad it is OK to destroy a speech platform. Just like it was OK to have “15 Days to Slow the Spread”. Fifteen days of government coercion and insanity and closed churches and curfews and shuttered businesses. All that to defeat “the common cold”. Brought to you by our government. How did that work out. What was Day 16 like?
Wake up and stop being a dupe for people who love to have you set fire to your own freedoms. Please.
As a political site, FR is great. As a legal interpreter site, not so much.
If the standard is the language of a law can mean anything then all laws are anti-free speech.
Trump has already said he’s gonna try to come up with way to unban it.
I believe you are incorrect.
You can only censor those who want to be.
Is Free Republic a red Chinese company?