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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by nashashmi on Friday January 17, 2025 @03:04PM (#42742673)
“I was proud to join 352 of my Republican and Democrat colleagues and pass H.R. 7521 today. CCP-controlled TikTok is an enormous threat to U.S. national security and young Americans’ mental health. This past week demonstrated the Chinese Communist Party is capable of mobilizing the platform’s users to a range of dangerous, destabilizing actions. The Senate must pass this bill and send it to the president’s desk immediately.”[1]

[1] https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-release/chairman-mcca...

U.S. national security: "mobilizing the platform’s users to a range of dangerous, destabilizing actions"

And give me a break on "young Americans’ mental health".

This bill was about pro-Palestine content ... "being mobilized by CCP" and was harming young people's health.

The fact that none of this was put forward by the lawyers makes me think the tiktok lawyers were incompetent.

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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by kevinventullo on Friday January 17, 2025 @03:40PM (#42743014)
The fact that none of this was put forward by the lawyers makes me think the tiktok lawyers were incompetent.

Or they knew it would get them nowhere because they understand precisely how unpopular pro-Palestine sentiment is among lawmakers.

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