Freeing TikTok: Ending Chinese control of the social media platform would enhance free speech

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Freeing TikTok: Ending Chinese control of the social media platform would enhance free speech
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It didn’t take Jonathan Haidt’s bestselling book The Anxious Generation to alert us to social media’s pernicious effects on children and teenagers.

than Instagram, Facebook, X, and Snapchat — and thus allows our enemies to roil our political culture and otherwise engage in psychological warfare. To give one prominent example, TikTok drove an epidemic of apologias for

This is a phony debate. As disingenuous as tech lobbyists have been, legitimate First Amendment advocates such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Cato Institute, where I worked for nearly 15 years, are mistaken. The divestiture legislation regulates foreign control of American information platforms, not the expression those platforms allow.

Many critics admit the bill doesn’t restrict the content of speech, but they nevertheless argue that it violates the First Amendment because either TikTok isn’t a national security threat, so the bill is disproportionate, or some alternative measure would address that threat.. That’s so because ByteDance must comply with the CCP’s demands and TikTok is controlled by ByteDance.

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