352-65, that's what our congress thinks of free speech. Who's next after we set the precedent?
352-65, that's what our congress thinks of free speech. Who's next after we set the precedent?
There's some language that attempts to limit the bill to social media apps, but any multiplayer game would easily pass those tests.
There's no "unless they're Chinese" clause in the first amendment.
That aside, we're not forcing Tiktok to shut down, just forcing them to find a new owner. We're not stopping anyone from posting online, nor are we stopping anyone from posting on tiktok. If anything, this will be good for speech on tiktok, surfacing topics that were banned or deboosted by a company that has to follow the CCP rules.
In the 2000s it was the arabs, in the 90s it was the Japanese, in the 80s it was the Russians. What would it look like if we had accumulated laws inhibiting speech from each group? We'd practically have a great firewall by now.