2 comments

  • blackeyeblitzar 22 days ago
    Claiming this law is unconstitutional seems like an interesting tactic. On the one hand you could claim that any action that affects speech of citizens indirectly - such as forcing a platform to shutdown due to sanctions (not this exact situation) - is unconstitutional. Such a precedent could help protect fundamental rights. On the other hand such a ruling might prevent the general practices of trade policies or economic sanctions that are normal and not necessarily bad.

    Either way, TikTok itself has shown itself to be undeserving of public trust, given they finally admitted that some US user data is in fact store in China:

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/06/21/tikt...

    Personally I think TikTok is also a national security threat because it seems to recommend content that radicalizes Americans or creates political polarization.

  • gnabgib 22 days ago
    Discussion:[0] (51 points, 11 hours ago, 57 comments)

    [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40159845