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I can't see why depriving a foreign corporation of access to the US market is a free speech issue.

Using a freedom of information argument for Americans is a stronger position, but that isn't guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.

This is going further than I want to go from a civil rights perspective, but there is at least some precedent. Corporate sanctions and bans have been used very effectively, as Huawei experienced not so long ago.

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I'm not a fan of corporate personhood, but so long as it remains a thing - it's relevant. Corporations have the same rights as individuals in the US. And any entity legally within the country, foreign or native, has 1st Amendment protections. And this company is clearly being targeted by the government for what they are saying, promoting, or allowing to be said - all of which would fall under 1st Amendment protections. If this passes, there's a real chance this will end up being yet another 9-0 'no this obviously is not constitutional you clowns' ruling in the Supreme Court.

I just don't think the government should be in the business of deciding on behalf of its citizens what media sources they are allowed to read. On that path lies danger.

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