Still think it's a baited headline given their stated intention to go to court to fight the "unconstitutional ruling". I'm not so sure the constitution gives foreign companies many legal rights so in that regard they'd perhaps be more protected if they were an American company. Whoops.

TikTok's 80% of investors who aren't ByteDance won't pass up billions of dollars in cash either if the alternative is that they forever get zero from the American market.

They've been investing heavily in the US market for the last couple years too, so I doubt they are in the black.

They've just all around played politics the American way very poorly. I can't really comment on whether that's good or bad but I'm blown away this Shou Chew CEO dude still has a job after this came down.

[–] crispyflagstones@sh.itjust.works -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They're probably going to find themselves having to explain what it means that a social media platform is itself engaged in speech, instead of functioning as a platform for others to speak. TikTok users, whose voices are allegedly curtailed by the ban, aren't exactly prevented from going to another platform.

If they say that it's Tiktok's speech that's curtailed, they're going to have to explain carefully how they're not a foreign influence operation.

The language of the first amendment is pretty stark, but the courts have always understood it has various limits.

[–] brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

they’re going to have to explain carefully how they’re not a foreign influence operation.

McCarthyism's back baby!

[–] crispyflagstones@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

It never went away.

[–] brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, but there was a period where liberals thought it was a bad thing.

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They never thought it was a bad thing; they just put it back under the log that they hide their racism, genocidal bloodthirst, and unearned arrogance-- wait, they still call that "Exceptionalism".

[–] brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah, you're right. I should have said there was a time when they claimed to think it was a bad thing

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Uh yeah? Destroying people's careers and lives just because they might be a communist is a massive breach of our rights.

[–] Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Sounds like some progressive commie hippie dippie talk!

Type a 2,000,000 word essay on why democrats are better then Republicans and say "Joe Biden is the most pro union president in American history" 69 times as penance for your transgressions against the congregation.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the TikTok community?

[–] UnpluggedFridge@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

It would be if McCarthy's hearings were full of actual KGB agents.

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