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This doesn’t set any precedent. SCOTUS has already ruled the same for similar style foreign company bans. The only difference this time is it’s a social media company instead of one of the many other types of companies who have been banned before.
Foreign nationals and actors have no right to free speech on US soil, there’s no constitutional issue here. Since the company is solely owned and operated from China, they do not have the same constitutional rights provided.
On top of the general security concerns, the US cannot enforce any kind of fines, regulations, safety and privacy verifications, etc… since the company can effectively ignore any of it since they operate fully outside the purview of the US. This doesn’t automatically mean a company gets banned but it does mean there is no legal precedent to doing so. It’s already been decided on before. It would be overturning precedent for SCOTUS to side with TikTok.
Comment by BoxMunchr at 15/01/2025 at 19:24 UTC
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Woah there buddy. TikTok is owned 60% by global investors, 20% it's founders, 20% employees including 7000 US employees. TT servers are hosted at Oracle, a US company. Your government is getting rid of American jobs and dooming American small businesses because they were lobbied by Meta. China harvesting data is just the excuse.