> TikTok, at the end of the day, is just a kind of printing press. So it should be allowed under the First Amendment. I don't think the First Amendment would a

> TikTok, at the end of the day, is just a kind of printing press. So it should be allowed under the First Amendment. I don't think the First Amendment would allow you to use a printing press built out of embargoed components, or arsenic compounds. The ban isn't on speech. It's on the platform/product, how it's built and distrbuted, and (correctly or not) perceived ways it harms society. You can have a short-form vertical video app focused on an algorithmic recommendation feed, and you can say whatever you want on that service. But it seems Washington doesn't want it to be sending data and money overseas to the PRC. > The First Amendment protects pledging your allegiance to the Flag, just as it protects China saying "China is great, you should love us instead". The US constitution gives foreign governments the same rights that it gives its own citizens? …Okay. It actually may or may not give US citizens the "Right to Receive Foreign Speech", without conferring any rights onto the foreign entities themselves, but that's still very much an open question. Here's 50 pages (that I haven't read) on the matter, if you're into it: https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1348&context=olr https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...