The constitution explicitly grants Congress the power to regulate foreign trade. Foreign companies do not have a first amendment right to operate in the US. This has nothing to do with the first amendment.

Despite media portrayals, virtually every constitutional question has at the core a conflict where different rights or different parts of the constitution conflict. In that case you can't absolutely follow every constitutional dictum because they are mutually exclusive. To some extent legal principals can be used to resolved these conflicts, but they provide huge maneuvering space for political machinations.

In this case, there's a conflict between the first amendment on one side and the congressional power to regulate foreign relations and largely judicially constructed executive powers around national security.

Of course there's a very strong legal argument you can make that the first amendment clearly trump the congressional power, and the national security powers are (to me) obvious bullshit from the outset. But this is largely irrelevant because it's much more convenient for all branches of government to pretend that this it's a gray area and decide it how they wish.

there's plenty of precedent for just throwing the bill of rights out the window for asian americans. 99% of americans simply don't care, or actively encourage it. the supreme court agrees. look up the case law. so why not? nobody will ever receive any significant pushback for throwing them under the bus whenever it's convenient. they might even say "it's for their own safety."

the reality on the ground is the only reality that matters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen_Ho_Lee <-- taiwanese, lol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Initiative

I guess Bills of Attainder aren't real when it's about corporate persons. We'll be banning political parties next.

I don’t see how banning TikTok would infringe on anyone’s freedom of expression (other than possibly for TikTok’s own self-produced videos). There is no right to distribution over a specific channel.