Getting this court to agree 9-0 on a politically sensitive case is pretty fuckin’ impressive. You want to regulate commerce with a foreign-owned entity for professed national security reasons, then you pass a law in Congress. That’s the way the US government is actually meant to function, and it’s sort of facepalmingly hilarious that they did something so stupid so well. If no one wants the law anymore, then it should be fairly simple to extend the deadline or repeal the law, riiiight? You own this mess now, Republicans. You own all the messes.
I’m honestly shocked the SC took up the case. Congress clearly has the authority to regulate businesses doing interstate commerce (like tiktok). I think the law is dumb china hawkery, but I also think there’s nothing unconstitutional about it. Congress could shutdown nearly any tech business they like for whatever reason they like.
Yeah, if not for all the people raising hell, I think this is normally one where they just agree to silently let the lower court ruling stand.
As for the law, it’s stupid. I am willing to consider that there may be some concerns that are unique to a Chinese-owned social media app becoming so popular in the US, but we were nowhere near the tipping point where we needed specific TikTok legislation, and even if it were warranted then something much more narrowly tailored could have worked. It was a boomer kneejerk to come down so hard, and especially to do so without considering the potential for backlash among voters that both parties want to court. It also isn’t a good look that this all goes down while the mask is coming off of our homegrown social media, and it’s becoming more blatantly obvious that their interests are not particularly aligned with an average American’s either.
It’s not even a national security issue… If it was the government would actually dig into the app and see if there was anything malicious in there. It’s a profit thing. They’re all mad that American companies aren’t getting a cut.
What national security issue is there with China having data about our location and not the same issue with American companies that poorly secure that data if at all and willingly sell it to anyone, probably even other Chinese companies?
Getting this court to agree 9-0 on a politically sensitive case is pretty fuckin’ impressive. You want to regulate commerce with a foreign-owned entity for professed national security reasons, then you pass a law in Congress. That’s the way the US government is actually meant to function, and it’s sort of facepalmingly hilarious that they did something so stupid so well. If no one wants the law anymore, then it should be fairly simple to extend the deadline or repeal the law, riiiight? You own this mess now, Republicans. You own all the messes.
I’m honestly shocked the SC took up the case. Congress clearly has the authority to regulate businesses doing interstate commerce (like tiktok). I think the law is dumb china hawkery, but I also think there’s nothing unconstitutional about it. Congress could shutdown nearly any tech business they like for whatever reason they like.
Yeah, if not for all the people raising hell, I think this is normally one where they just agree to silently let the lower court ruling stand.
As for the law, it’s stupid. I am willing to consider that there may be some concerns that are unique to a Chinese-owned social media app becoming so popular in the US, but we were nowhere near the tipping point where we needed specific TikTok legislation, and even if it were warranted then something much more narrowly tailored could have worked. It was a boomer kneejerk to come down so hard, and especially to do so without considering the potential for backlash among voters that both parties want to court. It also isn’t a good look that this all goes down while the mask is coming off of our homegrown social media, and it’s becoming more blatantly obvious that their interests are not particularly aligned with an average American’s either.
It’s not even a national security issue… If it was the government would actually dig into the app and see if there was anything malicious in there. It’s a profit thing. They’re all mad that American companies aren’t getting a cut.
What national security issue is there with China having data about our location and not the same issue with American companies that poorly secure that data if at all and willingly sell it to anyone, probably even other Chinese companies?
It’s always about greed.