He spearheaded the charge to ban the app—now he might come to its rescue.
TikTok’s future in the United States is as shaky as it’s ever been—and its political fate may come down to Donald Trump, the man who originally tried to ban it years ago.but rather a “forced transition of ownership.
Let’s get one thing straight: Banning TikTok would be an affront to the rich tradition and legal protection of free speech in the United States. Never before has the U.S. government blocked access to such an important and well-trodden medium for speech—including political speech—in this country’s history. The ban, if it takes effect, would stomp on the free speech rights of hundreds of millions of Americans in the wake of one of the most important elections in history.
Option No. 2 seems easiest: The technical prospect of actually banning TikTok is murky—the mechanism appears to be insuch as Apple’s App Store and the Google Play store if they allow downloads of the app, or even cloud companies for hosting TikTok’s data. The app won’t disappear from users’ phones, but might degrade and become laggy over time if users cannot download updates. a “win for America” last year.
In that standard Trump flip-flopping nonsense, there might be hope that Trump does the right thing even if it’s for the wrong reason. With a wave of a hand, Trump can cancel out the damage he did by starting this mess years ago, and become an unlikely savior for free speech in America. And that’s something I never thought I’d
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