Electronic Frontier Foundation
Montanans have a #FirstAmendment right to use TikTok to speak and access information online, and the company has a First Amendment right to select and curate users’ content. So we’re glad a federal judge struck down Montana’s TikTok ban.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/victory-montanas-unprecedented-tiktok-ban-unconstitutional
Victory! Montana’s Unprecedented TikTok Ban is Unconstitutional

A federal court on Thursday blocked Montana’s effort to ban TikTok from the state, ruling that the law violated users’ First Amendment rights to speak and to access information online, and the company’s First Amendment rights to select and curate users’ content. Montana passed a law in May that...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Dec 3, 2023 at 2:39amWeb
Show threadConstableJellyDec 3, 2023

@eff The critical "and also":

"state lawmakers are right to be concerned about online services collecting massive volumes of their residents’ private data. But lawmakers should address those concerns directly by **enacting comprehensive consumer data privacy laws**, rather than seeking to ban those services entirely or prevent children from accessing them."

Show threadhaui ☭ 🇵🇸Dec 3, 2023
@eff what an idiotic headline. „We have a right to be manipulated“ is what this reads to me. Single entity social media needs to be banned worldwide NOW!