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Today's issue of Platformer explains it as the following: >The Supreme Court has previously held that Congress can’t ban foreign propaganda, including propagan
by nickthegreek 3y ago
Today's issue of Platformer explains it as the following:
>The Supreme Court has previously held that Congress can’t ban foreign propaganda, including propaganda from China. In Lamont vs. Postmaster General, the court considered a law that required the postmaster general to detain “communist political propaganda” sent through the mail. The Post Office was then required to send the addressee a card asking whether they wanted the propaganda to be delivered, in what the court ultimately ruled had an unconstitutional chilling effect on speech.
https://www.platformer.news/tiktok-ban-bill-senate-legal-challenge-first-amendment/ https://www.platformer.news/tiktok-ban-bill-senate-legal-cha...
- zeroonetwothree 3y agoIt’s obviously not the same situation so blindly assuming that precedent means the same outcome is wrong. In particular TikTok is not being “banned” based on content, so it’s likely strict scrutiny will not apply.