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.
They did and it’s regrettable. I can’t believe none dissented but I dont care i’m still against it and think this will make the censors even more emboldened
“public square social media site.”
You actually answered your own question with this statement. The issue of free speech does not come in to play for the platform it’s self. It applies to the U.S. citizen users of that platform. They have free speech rights as long as TikTok provides them an open public square to exercise that right. So the whole issue is not actually about suppressing TikTok the company. It is about suppressing the rights of those who use the platform including U.S. businesses who advertise there.
This is greatly going to impact U.S. businesses and put a dent in the economy. It is going to harm us much more than it is going to harm China. And there is absolutely nothing on TikTok that China cannot get from any other forward facing public platforms who are also collecting private data and selling it. It is ignorant to even think this is going to make one bit of difference to China.