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Re:TikTok owner has strong First Amendment case against US b... by janalsncm on Friday April 26, 2024 @03:57PM (#40173504)
The complication for me is that banning TikTok is action against a third party. The primary purpose of banning TikTok is not about the speech of TikTok but of its users who are not parties to the suit. If a bar is forced to shut down the bar can’t argue that it is illegal because closing it might infringe on its patrons first amendment rights.

The only way such a suit works is if the users sued, not TikTok.

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Re:TikTok owner has strong First Amendment case against US b... by text0404 on Friday April 26, 2024 @06:17PM (#40174930)
if the bar also had open-mic nights and the government said "we're going to ban this bar because we don't like the speech they have at open-mic nights" then it would be a first amendment issue for the same reason that banning tiktok is a first amendment issue.
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