Ostensibly for "national security reasons"; however, several prominent TIk-Tokkers mock Trump. Free speech issues at play.

You got crickets in your head. So who is the person deciding what speech is acceptable? An Iranian leader calling for death to America is ok but a conservative making a statement of disagreement is banned. You are a fool and only believe it’s ok for a liberal leftist to ban speech they don’t like simply because of who said it. Time to reign in these political commissar who were not appointed to decide acceptable speech.

What do you think about the President’s announcement that he would seek to ban an entire social media platform from the U.S. by executive order?

Tik Tok? 😂😂😂 Actively and enthusiastically support the disenfranchisement of Companies beholding to the commmunist Chinese government. Including Huawei as well.

I am sure there are reasons to criticize TikTok. TikTok’s parent is a Chinese company but the allegation TikTok is “beholden” directly to the Chinese government itself hasn’t yet been established IMO and certainly not in this conversation.

American tech companies can be based in America and not be beholden to the American government. As we saw just recently with the GOP-led congressional hearings for the “Big 4.”

And that is a good thing.

The problem is that TikTok is home to some famous Trump critics whose work has been so successful that it’s been profiled in major newspapers.

If there is any kind of speech that deserves maximal constitutional protection under the First Amendment, it’s speech that criticizes our elected head-of-state.

It’s hard to rule out the possibility of bias in decisions undertaken by the President at the stroke of a pen against media platforms used to criticize him.

And precedents that get established under a Republican president could be utilized later by a Democratic president in ways that you might not like.

I feel like conservatives used to have a better grasp of some of these nuances of free speech issues, but the conversation has kind of devolved into a cesspit of defense of the most hateful kinds of speech against minorities, anti-science propaganda that could get people killed, etc.

If you don’t 100% support the most grotesque, hateful, bigoted, and fact-free speech online, then it seems conservatives aren’t interested in anything else you have to say on this subject anymore.

Yes it is established that every company in China is required to follow the directives of the Chinese government and must turnover information on request. There is no debate. The problem is that American companies unlike Chinese companies have the ability to refuse the government information demand. Quit pretending like China is set up just like the US. It’s not and you know it. Or maybe you don’t and need to do some research.