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If we're deciding the government has the ability to shut down social media apps for "national security", I want some seriously beefy protections in there to pre
by beej71 4y ago
If we're deciding the government has the ability to shut down social media apps for "national security", I want some seriously beefy protections in there to prevent abuse. That slope is genuinely for-real dangerously slippery, and scares me 100x more than the scary stuff TikTok is doing now.
The ban was right to be challenged--if Trump could legally justify it, let him do that in court. And if he couldn't, there's probably a damned good reason for that.
- akomtu 4y agoIt's not a slippery slope to ban a foreign survelliance app made by an adversary. Freedom of speech in the US applies only to the US citizens.
- beej71 4y agoThen there should be no problem getting this through the courts, right? All I'm asking for here is some guarantee that this won't be used to shut down social networks that some government entity dislikes for personal reasons. Because I know for a fact that some people who have been in power wanted to do exactly that. We should all be demanding this. Ban TikTok, but do it narrowly with a lot of protections.