The first amendment gives rights to citizens of the US not foreign controlled companies, right? Yes American citizens are posting on there but that doesn’t mean the company has a right to push their platform. Doesn’t feel like a violation IMHO but I’m not a lawyer 🤷
What’s the real 1st ammendment implications of the proposed TikTok ban / divestment law?
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Discussion
It’s a US corporation and the US has lots of laws and treaties that provide equal treatment to American and foreign beneficial owners.
ByteDance is a Chinese company…
Technically it’s a cayman islands company. They operate an HQ in china and lots of the shareholders are Chinese.
That’s an interesting point but in either case they’re not a majority owned US company. The bill of rights doesn’t apply to them in this case.