Then they should be fired. The Constitution, in plain English, bans the practice of naming a person or group in a law specifically to punish them. That’s the domain of courts. These judges are either illiterate or corrupt.

There’s a history of the US putting people in prison too. It’s still unconstitutional for Congress to pass a law requiring someone to go to prison just because the law they passed named them.

They absolutely made data collection part of their opinion.

Nothing. The arguments were public. They obliterated the first amendment rights of 170 million Americans because the government said National Security. If the government can use magic words to make your rights disappear, then you don’t have those rights.

It’s not even a running consistent with their own dogma. They’ve gone completely rogue.

Then they should ban that, not pass an extremely broad law as I detail in another comment.

The thing people aren’t getting about this law is it’s extremely broad, with no due process. The definition they use for organizations that are subject to this law could literally include the New York Times. And designating an organization as controlled by a foreign adversary is a declaration by the Secretary of Commerce.

There’s no court, no hearing, no public notice, no juries, and only one judge (the secretary).

The point of taking down TikTok is twofold. One, they have a Boogeyman they can use to push it through. Two, if they can shut down an app with 170 million users then they can shut down anyone. That’s half the country that uses TikTok. If they can do that without protests then they can shut down anyone.

Nah, midnight orders are a thing. But the event isn’t on the 20th, it’s on the 19th. The administration could absolutely shut it down.

A. Counter-Intelligence is when you are countering intelligence gathering activities.

B. Nobody has released any evidence that TikTok is an intelligence gathering tool.

C. This law is unconstitutional by the plain text of the Constitution. SCOTUS has truly gone over the edge.

Lmao. GoW live service? Fucking hell it’s video games by committee.

Oh gosh, I thought you meant .world World News for a minute there. Yeah the problem is .ml, they’re tankies.

What’s your phone number?

Trump has expressed a keen interest in being seen as rescuing a platform on which he’s been told he’s widely admired…

Whoever did this is a fucking genius. They love you on TikTok, you gotta save them!

Meanwhile on TikTok, another update of old labor movement songs.

I think you have that reversed. You’re the one with the provable position.

Haha, fair enough

Most of big tech actually falls under the TikTok ban possibility. He may have lobbied for it but Congress put him square in the cross hairs. So Trump effectively has a veto on Zuckerberg owning Meta.

So you just spread misinformation on purpose and run away when pressed?

So you’re saying I’m invited to your next party?

Yeah well I like my rights well protected.

Did you know they defined this to cover any organization running a website that allows you to create an account, has a million users, at least 1 person can share content, and at least 1 person can view that shared content?

With the exception of product, business, and travel reviews.

Does that sound an awful lot like a news organization to anyone else?

Furthermore we already decided that companies have first amendment rights when we let Hobby Lobby have a religion.

If they decide this is good enough then we open the path to any organization in that incredibly broad description being banned. Daily Kos certainly falls under it too. People think Meta dropping fact checkers and going anti immigration just in the US is because Zuckerberg went MAGA? No, he sees the writing on the wall.

This kind of law is how Authoritarian states lock down media in their country.

I’m a simple person. I see rhetoric being passed as fact and I cannot help myself. I know, super popular, invited to every single party.