I’m no Tiktok fan but the US has extremely broad free speech protections and its hard to see how this could be constitutional.
Individuals posting videos of themselves is clearly speech so we are in the 1st amendment territory. None of the usual exceptions for certain types of content (defamation, threats, fraud etc) apply because the restriction isn’t on specific content.
The only way out I could see is saying national security/secrets require us to prevent the Chinese company Tiktok from operating in the US.
Thats true from the point of view of the individual poster claiming free speech infringement. I guess I was thiking of it from the point of the corporation which could claim something like a right to use an algorithm to promote certain videos as speech. I’m not sure if this has been decided by higher courts yet.
Individuals posting videos of themselves is clearly speech so we are in the 1st amendment territory. None of the usual exceptions for certain types of content (defamation, threats, fraud etc) apply because the restriction isn’t on specific content.
The only way out I could see is saying national security/secrets require us to prevent the Chinese company Tiktok from operating in the US.