Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage for shutdown

Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by DangitBobby on Friday January 17, 2025 @03:32PM (#42742954)

I appreciate the thorough response. So they speak to the motivation in part being "preventing a foreign adversary from accessing the sensitive data of 170 million U.S. TikTok users", but not at all the portion of the motivation to "prevent the CCP from having a megaphone into 170 million attentive US TikTok users" (my words). Did they omit that this was likely a motivation, or contend that it wasn't.

Edit: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42742762 for this same thread

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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by kopecs on Friday January 17, 2025 @03:44PM (#42743053)

I think this is discussed at length in part II.D (starts at the bottom of 17). I would write more but I have spent too long already on this thread :)

I would be a bit careful about trying to liken motivation for something like an EO to a law though; many members of congress voted to pass the exact language in the final bill, and they might not all have agreed with _why_. So I would put to you that the text itself is the primary thing one should consider, especially more in the legislative case than the executive one.

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