• @[email protected]
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    -17 months ago

    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.

      • davel [he/him]
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        37 months ago

        Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the TikTok community?

          • @Maggoty
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            17 months ago

            Uh yeah? Destroying people’s careers and lives just because they might be a communist is a massive breach of our rights.

        • @Ultragigagigantic
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          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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      • @UnpluggedFridge
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        -17 months ago

        It would be if McCarthy’s hearings were full of actual KGB agents.