TikTok has framed the divest-or-ban bill as an affront to free speech. If the U.S. government has the power to ban a platform that enables free expression over supposed national security concerns, the thinking goes, where does that power end?
First Amendment scholars and civil liberties groups say the bill is unlikely to pass constitutional muster. 'This is still nothing more than an unconstitutional ban in disguise,' Jenna Leventoff, senior policy counsel at the ACLU, said.
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