I don’t support a ban like this, but I also don’t find the judges reasoning convincing

“Additionally, there are many ways in which a foreign adversary, like China, could gather data from Montanans,” including purchasing it from data brokers, open-source intelligence gathering, and hacking, Molloy pointed out. “Thus, it is not clear how SB 419 will alleviate the potential harm of protecting Montanans from China’s purported evils.”

Because the law in question is for consumer protection, for the sake of the argument we have to assume for the sake of the lawsuit, that tiktok is as bad as they say.

There’s a fundamental difference between the Chinese government spending huge amounts of money to try to hack into both Apple and Google (who both have impressive security measures) to get your citizens data and those citizens paying the Chinese government to unknowingly collect that data.

Like, I think the judge ended up at the right answer, but got there in an irresponsible manner.

I haven’t previously heard that Montana as a state was trying to ban Tik Tok, I thought public schools were (which is pretty reasonable, stay off social media while at school). I’m glad the judge had this ruling!

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