> "Free Speech" in most cases is not really free -- in that there are rules and regulations to how speech can be conducted.
Of course; absolute freedom rarely exist, as exercising absolute freedom tends to infringe on the freedom of others. The classic case is that my freedom to play music at 4am as loud as I please infringes on my neighbour's freedom to sleep at night. "Freedom" is not a one-dimensional axis that can go either up or down but a complex matrix with all sorts of interactions.
So TikTok is covered by freedom of speech. Okay. But what about content coming from Chinese servers, or say, foreign companies that are obligated to give your personal information to a foreign government?
It's never been so much the speech itself but how it's presented to others.