Frustratingly, Gianforte has so far lived up to all my expectations for him. I love Montana, it's a great and beautiful place to live, but hilariously the California liberal migration invoked a huge immune response turning an otherwise purple state deep red and sending them off the deep end. Sucks to see this happen.
TikTok is now banned in Montana
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Re: TikTok is now banned in Montana
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What does free speech have to do with this?
Tik tok videos are speech, therefore banning tiktok is a violation of free speech
A bit of silly analogy but if a megaphone recorded everything about the person speaking into it and forwarded it to a semi-adversarial state, would banning that megaphone be a violation of freespeech?
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tik tok videos are speech, therefore banning tiktok is a violation of free speech
A bit of silly analogy but if a megaphone recorded everything about the person speaking into it and forwarded it to a semi-adversarial state, would banning that megaphone be a violation of freespeech?
Haven't read the bill, but I'll go on a limb and say it's not written to apply to all apps owned by semi-adversarial states.
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#45Need to add “here's what you need to know” to the automatic clickbait remover.
Looks doable. I've added it to my list. Thanks!
(Manually removed in the meantime)
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They already do? Plenty of apps are banned in various countries, if I recall correctly.
It's usually the publishers who choose what countries they appear in rather than the store itself.
There's many country level bans by the store and have been for years.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
A bit of silly analogy but if a megaphone recorded everything about the person speaking into it and forwarded it to a semi-adversarial state, would banning that megaphone be a violation of freespeech?
Haven't read the bill, but I'll go on a limb and say it's not written to apply to all apps owned by semi-adversarial states.
Of course, it's a hypothetical to tease out why people think it's a violation of free speech.
A law this specific wouldn't even be valid I'm my country.
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#49What happened to freedom of speech. I thought many politician, especially republicans cry for free speech.
I don't think freedom of speech applies to foreign companies.
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#50Blatant violation of constitutional rights… what a shame!
Nah, this is entirely our mistake. Our devices took away our ability to choose what we install, and now certain individuals get strongarmed like this and we lose our say. The shame is that modern society went 10 whole years thinking this was a smart move because Twitter wasn't shit and the news wasn't scary enough yet.