Comment by dragonwriter 6 months ago
> "Free speech" is not a good argument here. TikTok isn't a "free speech" platform.
Free speech doesn't protect free speech platforms: free speech protects every speaker, platform, and listener against regulations targeted on the basis of content/viewpoint.
Three branches of government agree that this is not regulation targeted on the basis of content or viewpoint.
My point is that whether or not TikTok is a “free speech platform” has nothing to do with the application 1st Amendment, it was about the offered argument, not the conclusion.
OTOH, it wouldn't be the first time all three branches got the First Amendment wrong (one of the most popular 1A mantras — the one about fire in a crowded theater — came from dicta in what is now widely recognized as one such instance.)
That's a nice way of saying you took his words out of context to make a pedantic point that doesn't have to do with anything.
No, I didn't take it out of context: the argument be made was irrelevant to the conclusion it was offered to support. Choosing not to make an argument either way about the conclusion to add to that comment about how inappropriate the argument was in context is neither taking it out of context nor pedantic.
You didn't even address an argument. You literally took three words and dunked on them for not meaning anything on their own, when in context that is exactly the point.
Yep and you are still protected under the 1st Amendment even if you can't use TikTok because the government stopped the company from doing business in America.