Summary
The Justice Department urged the Supreme Court to reject Donald Trump’s request to delay a law banning TikTok or forcing its sale by Jan. 19, 2025.
TikTok’s parent, ByteDance, claims the ban violates First Amendment rights, but the DOJ argued the law targets foreign ownership, not free speech, and passes constitutional scrutiny.
Trump, despite opposing a ban publicly, asked the Court to extend the deadline to seek a political resolution.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Jan. 10, with the ban set to take effect before Trump’s inauguration.
If you mean “influencers” or the ultra wealthy, then good. They deserve to go out of business.
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political activists/commentators, particularly ones who speak out against the fascist apartheid regime of Israel and the genocide it’s committing. Such speech is heavily censored on the American owned major social media platforms for reasons as obvious as they’re infuriating.
Comedians, singers, and other performers who benefit from the exposure to potential audiences. Especially ones who would be censored on the other platforms for the above reason or others.
The algorithm and spying is awful, sure, but not any worse than the American ones that cooperate with other totalitarian governments such as those of Russia, India, Israel, Hungary etc with impunity approaching that of Israel.
The main REAL difference between Tiktok and the other platforms is that it doesn’t suppress anti-genocide speech, which is inconvenient to a political class where the vast majority is under the sway of AIPAC and other de facto Israeli government entities.
Ban all social media.
Nah, much better to regulate their behavior and then actually ENFORCE the laws and regulations.