Re:TikTok to Sue U.S. over Ban
by vorpalhex on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @10:59AM
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> If someone in China called you and read out loud every byte in the tiktok app and you wrote it down in notepad and saved it,is that speech or commerce?
Nobody cares about the source code. Everyone cares about sending data back to the CCP. If Tik Tok/ByteDance wants to stop being a tool of the CCP and engaging in the persecution of Uigher Muslims, then they can go back to offering us an app with funny dances.
> They can regulate commerce but for software and crypto they can't regulate the transfer of information,they can only regulate commercial activity with that information
Crypto exports are regulated.
> They can't ban someone from mailing you the communist manifesto for free as a book or handwritten letter
Actually at one point sending pornography through the USPS WAS banned. Typically political speech gets stronger protections though.
> so they can't ban a communist manifesto app download or punish anyone for facilitating that transfer.
Nobody cares about the source code. Everyone cares about sending data back to the CCP. If Tik Tok/ByteDance wants to stop being a tool of the CCP and engaging in the persecution of Uigher Muslims, then they can go back to offering us an app with funny dances.
> They can regulate commerce but for software and crypto they can't regulate the transfer of information,they can only regulate commercial activity with that information
Crypto exports are regulated.
> They can't ban someone from mailing you the communist manifesto for free as a book or handwritten letter
Actually at one point sending pornography through the USPS WAS banned. Typically political speech gets stronger protections though.
> so they can't ban a communist manifesto app download or punish anyone for facilitating that transfer.
The issue isn't spreading the communist manifesto. It's human rights abuses of a religious minority including forced sterilization - https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/china-conducting-mass-steril...