Was watching Nik Reikeda stream tonight, and he was discussing the Montana law that bans download of the tiktok app.
Nik thinks the law violates 1st Amendment free speech. I have several bones to pick with him:
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Banning the app DOES NOT BAN ACCESS, either for watching or posting videos. You can upload a video via browser through tiktok.com. All the coverage I have read about this is completely glossing over this point, that the app is superfluous to using the service. It is a convenience, nothing more.
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App stores have banned social media apps before, Gab was kicked off both Apple and Google in 2018. How would this be any different?
This whole thing is evidence of how the right can be 'led to water' by the left using their moral outrage, it's a huge weakness of the right. It's completely understandable to dislike Tiktok and it's content, same thing with porn but that is only a consequence not the source of the problem.
If you want the source, look at all this fatherless behaviour caused by decades of the break up of the nuclear family as if there was 1 responsible parent in all these thots lives they'd be slapped on the back of the head and told to put some clothes on. Banning Tiktok does nothing in the grand scale of things, just makes the right feel like they did something why the left rub their hands with glee that they now have the precedent to apply restrictions to other social media sites.
It's less to do with moral courage and more to do with being too trusting of the GOP, in general.