Censoursip or surveilance crisis?
Freedom crisis
TikTok is now banned in Montana
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Re: TikTok is now banned in Montana
#72I don't know if this is the right call, since it opens up a can of worms. Since it might affect free speech as a constitutional right it might make it to the Supreme Court, which might be interesting.
Re: TikTok is now banned in Montana
#73Also Telegram
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
But no sub-national level bans, that are enforced, at least from what I've heard.
Re: TikTok is now banned in Montana
#75Why don't we make the analogy of TikTok to alcohol?
Did people of Montana voted for this or did Montana politicians follow their donors' agenda?
Is FB as dangerous or more dangerous as TikTok? Why target TikTok?
Re: TikTok is now banned in Montana
#76Why don't we make the analogy of TikTok to alcohol? Did people of Montana voted for this or did Montana politicians follow their donors' agenda? Is FB as dangerous or more dangerous as TikTok? Why target TikTok?
Lobbyists demanded it. Kentucky passed something similar earlier this year [0] - banning TikTok from state computer networks. An amendment exempted universities from the ban, but libraries are still blocked. It was signed by the governor on March 23 and went into effect that day[1].
0 - https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/23rs/sb20.html
1 - normally, state laws go into effect at the end of the year or end of legislative session (depending on the state constitution) unless there is an "emergency" in which case it goes into effect the day it becomes law.
Re: TikTok is now banned in Montana
#77"Is there a good reason to ban TikTok?... the answer is still “nobody knows.” I believe the second sentence answers the first, but not in the way the author intended. I'm not fundamentally insisting that we legally declare all data compromised until proven otherwise, but there is reasonable risk here that we cannot assuage. As for whether SB 419 can be upheld: Eh. ~50 states, one of which is being used as a test here…
Every Republican controlled state passed some sort of TikTok ban this year. TikTok has joined "transgender" and "abortion" as the current moral panics driving right wing discourse & legislation.
Re: TikTok is now banned in Montana
#78What happened to freedom of speech. I thought many politician, especially republicans cry for free speech.
They only "care" about it when it affects "conservatives". Anything that the "left wing" uses (or cares about) must be banned.
Re: TikTok is now banned in Montana
#79Earlier 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.
It is substantially the same as the one passed in my state. The first sentence of senate bill 419:
> AN ACT BANNING TIKTOK IN MONTANA; PROHIBITING A MOBILE APPLICATION STORE FROM OFFERING THE TIKTOK APPLICATION TO MONTANA USERS
Re: TikTok is now banned in Montana
#80Isn't this a bill of attainder?
Yes. It lists one single product. It tries to wrap some semblance of legality by referring to 15 CFR 7.4 (a list of foreign "adversaries"). If they really cared about such legality, they'd have banned every app from every country in that list (most of which would be illegal in the US anyway).
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-15/subtitle-A/part-7/subp...