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TikTok should lose its big Supreme Court case
The Supreme Court case asking if the government can ban TikTok is easier than it looks.
TikTok argues that this case should be viewed no differently than if the government had targeted Bezos’s ownership of the Washington Post due to a dispute over domestic politics, and thus that the federal law should receive the most skeptical level of constitutional scrutiny. Whatever you think of Abbott’s specific concerns, a reasonable lawmaker quite easily could conclude that media executives like Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk wield too much control over political discourse in the United States. It’s another thing altogether for a foreign adversary to potentially be able to control a massive communications platform with 170 million American users, nearly all of whom will be completely oblivious to whether the Chinese government is collecting their data or manipulating which content they see.
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