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Another free speech interpretation: the right to assemble. I cannot assemble with the group of people I once was with TikTok gone
by sethammons 2y ago
Another free speech interpretation: the right to assemble. I cannot assemble with the group of people I once was with TikTok gone
- josephcsible 2y agoIf you used to assemble at a public park, and the city closes the park entirely to turn it into something else, does that violate your right to assemble too?
- sethammons 2y agodepends. Was it the de facto town square?
- pixl97 2y agoEven if it was the town square, if the property went from public to private ownership property ownership laws trump your free speech laws. You cannot come on to my properly and say whatever you want, more so you can't say it's not trespassing because of freedom of speech.
- afiori 2y agoIf the city sold the public property with the specific intent of having a private entity stop protected speech they were powerless to stop then yes, it would be a free speech issue
- DangitBobby 2y agoIf the specific intent was to make it difficult to assemble, then yes.
- lupusreal 2y agoThe law hasn't made it difficult to use alternatives to tiktok, which are free and numerous.
- Aloisius 2y agoThere's no government restrictions preventing you from assembling elsewhere. Your interpretation would make shutting down any place where people assembled unconstitutional which was clearly never the intent.
- curt15 2y agoOf course you can. Nothing stops the same group of people from congregating on Discord, Rumble, or even in real life.
- afiori 2y agoThis is like saying that closing all churches of a religion is not a big deal as the people can perfectly pray by themselves. (Also since they can pray in their head why not making that religion's prayers illegal to speak aloud)
- josephcsible 2y agoNo, it's like saying it's not a big deal to close one particular church building with eminent domain to build a railway station there.