{"id":13154,"date":"2024-03-15T11:44:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T11:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13154"},"modified":"2024-03-15T11:44:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T11:44:47","slug":"is-the-new-push-to-ban-tiktok-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13154","title":{"rendered":"Is the new push to ban TikTok for real?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;The constitutional law here appears straightforward: Congress can\u2019t outright ban TikTok or any social media platform unless it can prove that it poses legitimate and serious privacy and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/defense-and-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">national security<\/a>&nbsp;concerns that can\u2019t be addressed by any other means. The bar for such a justification is necessarily very high in order to protect Americans\u2019 First Amendment rights, Krishnan said.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;members of Congress have not provided concrete proof for their claims about Chinese digital espionage and seem to have little interest in offering any transparency: Before the committee voted to advance the bill Thursday, lawmakers had a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/new-push-congress-ban-tiktok-or-force-chinese-divestiture-gains-steam-2024-03-07\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">closed-door classified briefing<\/a>&nbsp;on national security concerns associated with TikTok.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/24094839\/tiktok-ban-bill-congress-pass-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/24094839\/tiktok-ban-bill-congress-pass-biden<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The constitutional law here appears straightforward: Congress can\u2019t outright ban TikTok or any social media platform unless it can prove that it poses legitimate and serious privacy and national security concerns that can\u2019t be addressed by any other means. The bar for such a justification is necessarily very high in order to protect Americans\u2019 First Amendment rights, Krishnan said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;members of Congress have not provided concrete proof for their claims about Chinese digital espionage and seem to have little interest in offering any transparency: Before the committee voted to advance the bill Thursday, lawmakers had a closed-door classified briefing on national security concerns associated with TikTok.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/24094839\/tiktok-ban-bill-congress-pass-biden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[321,800,89,542,348,906,1484,134,328,88],"class_list":["post-13154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-ban","tag-bans","tag-china","tag-congress","tag-data","tag-legislation","tag-national-security","tag-propaganda","tag-social-media","tag-tiktok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13155,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13154\/revisions\/13155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}