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Encryption is seen as a tool and a weapon,not as speech. You have the right to choose who you communicate with. Handing over your information to a foreign gover
by badrabbit 6y ago
Encryption is seen as a tool and a weapon,not as speech. You have the right to choose who you communicate with. Handing over your information to a foreign government,even an enemy state at war is your right. What you don't have a right to do is to share confidential information or information that is not about yourself that will aid a foreign power. The key here is that the information id about you and no one else, this information belongs to you and you have a right to communicate with foreign entities (freedom of speech does not constrain you to speak only to citizens in america). Freedom of speech applies because you are on US soil, not because tiktok is or isn't. On that same note, you get to tell foreign governments about your experience in the US, if you are persecuted or in fear for your life and your government can't protect you (to seek asylum for example). So I'd say communication with foreign countries and governments about unpriviledged information and first hand accounts is a right. Unless of course you live in china or korea in which case you can't make your government look bad or share information about internal conditions (such as starving population).