> The law to ban tiktok was passed because the Chinese government has direct control over the content shown to users. Counterpoint: The law to ban tiktok was

> The law to ban tiktok was passed because the Chinese government has direct control over the content shown to users. Counterpoint: The law to ban tiktok was languishing after the US government got complete access to tiktok moderation, only still pushed by local anti-China grandstanders who ran on it when the government was busy extorting tiktok in order to get that access. The reason it passed now was to suppress the speech of Americans talking about the leveling of Gaza. > All the talk about privacy and data collection were mostly to muddy the waters by bringing in all tech to the conversion, and divert attention from solely tiktok Because an anti-tiktok law is a bill of attainder and completely unconstitutional (as I was once downvoted into oblivion for mentioning.) Generalizing the bill passes that constitutional hurdle, and if upheld allows the state to end-run around the 1st Amendment and ban speech at will. The bill would be useless if it didn't silence Americans, and all people will do after a tiktok ban is migrate to another speech platform. It's important to be able to silence speech everywhere. > tiktok was banned primarily because of who controls the content delivered, not who is collecting the data. The US doesn't care about tiktok, and has full access to ban whatever it likes. The US cares about silencing you.