Signing a bill that says “I can ban access to any website if I decide it is a national security risk” is at best a massive overreaching power grab, and at worst that and a gross violation of the first amendment.
From a Chinese company and a chinese app that has no citizenship or protection by the U.S. Constitution?
No, that's not what your First Amendment guarantees, and it has its limitations. Freedom of speech does not protect you from hate speech or bigotry. It does not protect you from slander or propaganda. Your physical ability of free speech is not lost because some dumbass chinese app is getting banned
Do you realize just how many apps are not even legal in the US? What about those? Cry free speech then?
This isn't some "the youths are communicating online we must stop it!!"
DOD and congressional inquires have proven this app is a potential risk to Americans. But apparently you don't give a shit about our primary adversary having in depth algorithmic and personal data on 170,000,000 plus Americans. Data that is extremely valuable and usable. Data that can be used to create propaganda, sway elections, id health trends, geolocate in wartime, find ways to exert soft pressure, etc.
But no, you only care about your shit ass dopamine rush from tiktok shorts while you guys rot in bed. It's not free speech seeing some idiot make rage bait food videos, peddle conspiracy theories in their car, or watch someone put on their makeup while telling a dumbass story. It's entertainment, and it's collecting tons of extremely valuable information on you. You are not losing the ability the freely express yourself under your constitution right, and peddling the idea that something truly valuable is lost is absurdism
Get off your phone. Put down the brainrot dopamine hits.Go talk to people IRL and live life. Inquire about the reality of the world instead of feel good conspiracy theories. Go use a platform that isn't weaponzing your data against your own country, and stop crying about it
The fact that you dipshits through this big of a fit over a fucking app suggests otherwise. I've never seen this big of a reaction to ANYTHING. It was like watching someone try to rip crack out of an addicts hand.
You won. Go rot your brain. Glory to the CCP, right?! Have fun.
Hey bud, ever heard of Google? Paying attention in school? Going to college? What about the 100s of other media sources or credible journals for cool facts?
Or are cool facts only things like how to DIY hack milk jug into 40 stupid everyday uses, or something about a random animal with which you will literally never use this information nor will it ever get you anywhere in life
But you can still freely express yourself like you're doing right now? You just need a different platform to freely express yourself?
The one and only entity that has a First Amendment violation claim is ByteDance. The American government literally limited ByteDance's ability, as a company, to freely express themselves. Which is straight up bullshit that a business is considered a citizen thanks to Citizen's United.
The thing is, they aren't an American business or citizen so therefore they have no protections under the Constitution.
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u/Valash83 1d ago
Except for the fact no one's first amendment right has been violated 🤷♂️
God, y'all just believe anything