Summary

TikTok faces a U.S. shutdown by Jan. 19 unless the Supreme Court delays or blocks a law requiring its Chinese parent, ByteDance, to divest.

The Biden administration defends the law as a national security measure, citing potential risks of Chinese government influence. Content creators argue it violates free speech.

Donald Trump, once a supporter of the ban, seeks a delay to reach a “political resolution.”

A shutdown could cost TikTok millions of users and revenue. The court’s decision, due soon, could reshape U.S. digital speech policy.

  • @[email protected]
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    301 day ago

    Idk, I think all these governments having trade and tech wars is bad for our freedom. But on the other hand, TikTok is pure misinformation slop.

    • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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      91 day ago

      TikTok makes Facebook look like haute culture and maybe people don’t need as much freedom as they think they do.

      • @[email protected]
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        211 hours ago

        maybe people don’t need as much freedom as they think they do.

        The quiet part is a bit loud here my blue conservative friend.

      • @[email protected]
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        91 day ago

        That’s not how freedom is defined in the constitution though. We are not in China or North Korea but are heading in that direction.

          • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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            161 day ago

            I don’t think the government has the right to control what you do in your private time on your private device.

            1st amendment is right to free press and right to free speech. Several amendments imply a right to privacy from the government, such as the 3rd 4th and 9th.

            The government should not regulate how I make my speech. That’s ridiculous to give them the right to remove how people are allowed to speak.

            Good to know people are willing to give themselves more chains to a fascist Trump government if they don’t like the UI of an app.

            • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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              81 day ago

              There are already government regulations on what you can do on your ‘private’ device and what you can do on your private time.

              • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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                924 hours ago

                Cool, so why stop there! Just make it so they always have access to my phone! Why would I need the right to use anything I want?

                The government now needs needs me to get court approval to speak my mind to Trump. Require paperwork just to develop an app.

                Surely nothing bad will happen if we just let this pot of water rise with frogs advocating it to get hotter.

                • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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                  324 hours ago

                  I don’t think the government has the right to control what you do in your private time on your private device.

                  You’re still acting like they don’t do this already.

                  • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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                    724 hours ago

                    So we just let them? “It’s already happening, give into it. You’ll learn to love and accept it.”

            • @[email protected]
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              322 hours ago

              I don’t think the government has the right to control what you do in your private time on your private device.

              [Laughs in War in Drugs.]

                • @[email protected]
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                  27 hours ago

                  I agree, but that doesn’t change the fact that restricting what people can do in their own homes has been deemed constitutional under the interstate commerce clause art least since Wickard v. Filburn.

            • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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              21 day ago

              What is it, the sixty-ninth amendment?

              ‘An unregulated internet, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear apps, shall not be infringed’?

              • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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                211 hours ago

                This just in, nothing ever changes. Black people are still 3/5th of a person, women don’t have the right to vote, the vice president is 2nd place winner, and people don’t elect senators.