This isn’t a first amendment issue. No one is telling you not to install TikTok on your own phone. The devices in question are government owned and provided (it’s a work phone).
That ban also applied to public universities in Texas, which moved to block TikTok from campus Wi-Fi networks and school-owned devices. Texas A&M and the University of Texas were among the colleges that complied with the ban, limiting access to the hit social video app across their campuses.
They are literally barring its use through public university Wi-Fi. Not even needing to get into the hypocrisy of banning TikTok but not similar shit like Instagram, or the fact that both university students and professionals use TikTok both for social connections and for work, it is a clear curtailing of a form of communication over others through the government. Would banning lemmy.world from some public internet connections not be an infringement on the unalienable right to assemble and speech? RTFA.
This was my first thought when I read the article too. I only realized the past handful of years that a lot of people don’t really understand what the 1st Amendment protects.
This isn’t a first amendment issue. No one is telling you not to install TikTok on your own phone. The devices in question are government owned and provided (it’s a work phone).
They are literally barring its use through public university Wi-Fi. Not even needing to get into the hypocrisy of banning TikTok but not similar shit like Instagram, or the fact that both university students and professionals use TikTok both for social connections and for work, it is a clear curtailing of a form of communication over others through the government. Would banning lemmy.world from some public internet connections not be an infringement on the unalienable right to assemble and speech? RTFA.
This was my first thought when I read the article too. I only realized the past handful of years that a lot of people don’t really understand what the 1st Amendment protects.