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What does free speech have to do with this?

Freedom of speech includes the right to receive information. [1] There's tons of content on Tik Tok that isn't available elsewhere.

[1] https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1549/right-to-r...

Tik tok videos are speech, therefore banning tiktok is a violation of free speech

A bit of silly analogy but if a megaphone recorded everything about the person speaking into it and forwarded it to a semi-adversarial state, would banning that megaphone be a violation of freespeech?

Haven't read the bill, but I'll go on a limb and say it's not written to apply to all apps owned by semi-adversarial states.

Of course, it's a hypothetical to tease out why people think it's a violation of free speech.

A law this specific wouldn't even be valid I'm my country.

It is substantially the same as the one passed in my state. The first sentence of senate bill 419:

> AN ACT BANNING TIKTOK IN MONTANA; PROHIBITING A MOBILE APPLICATION STORE FROM OFFERING THE TIKTOK APPLICATION TO MONTANA USERS

https://leg.mt.gov/bills/2023/billpdf/SB0419.pdf

You are free to post the exact same content on any other platform. It's not the speech that's banned, it's the platform.

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