Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline

Post by zombiwoof » Fri, Jan 17, 2025, 6:16 PM UTC

vehemenz wrote: post #161

mrcwinn wrote: post #15

Regardless of one’s view on the outcome, this case is a reminder that textualism as a legal philosophy stands on shaky ground. This case is decided not on some strict analysis of the words written by a legislator, but on the court’s subjective view that there is a compelling national interest (which in turn seems based on speculation about the future, rather than a factual analysis of events). Textualism might give t…

It's not really speculation, though. Certain aspects of the intelligence relationships between the US and China are highly asymmetrical already. For example, Chinese nationals can enter our country and gather information on our infrastructure, corporations, and people with relative ease because English is prevalent, and foreign nationals have, with the exception of certain military/research areas, the same access tha…

Post by DoneWithAllThat » Fri, Jan 17, 2025, 6:17 PM UTC

medhir wrote: post #225

In a more functional democracy we would see that mass data collection of any sort, by any company (foreign or domestic), is a national security risk. Have witnessed first-hand the threats by foreign state actors penetrating US-based cloud infrastructure. And it’s not like any of our domestic corporations are practicing the type of security hygiene necessary to prevent those intrusions. So idk, the whole thing feels l…

Post by kube-system » Fri, Jan 17, 2025, 6:19 PM UTC

commandlinefan wrote: post #424

As a free speech absolutist, I hope that what comes out of this is a completely anonymized, uncensorable alternative. We've gotten the arbitrary censorship walled garden social media sites mostly because until now there hasn't been any particular reason for most users to step outside of them.

Post by javier123454321 » Fri, Jan 17, 2025, 6:19 PM UTC

the_arun wrote: post #405

Thousands of US content creators were earning on TikTok. Now they need to migrate over to other alternatives. Also this is a reminder for all content creators to always plan for failovers. Though I would assume most them already are on multiple platforms.

Post by rtkwe » Fri, Jan 17, 2025, 6:20 PM UTC

elzbardico wrote: post #181

This is going to be an interesting experiment: A widely used social network across the world WITHOUT american content. Until now, the closest thing we had like this were national our regional networks like Russia's vk, but Vk was never truly popular outside Russian speaking countries. Now we, for the first time ever, will have the situation where a social network has global reach but without american content. Will it…