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Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) discusses, in exquisite detail, the First Amendment problems with H.R. 7521, the House bill to ban TikTok.

Topics include:

• Your First Amendment right to read crazy shit
• TikTok ban bros: throwing spaghetti at the wall
• Foreign broadcast-ownership rules: so passé
• “iT’S nOT sPEech, It’S CoNDuCt”
• H.R. 7521: Least. Tailored. Law. Ever.
• Banning media: it’s what the other guys do
• McCarthyism: so hot right now

Links:

A Breakdown of the Bizarre Factions Fighting Over the TikTok Ban Bill

Tech Policy Podcast #344: TikTok and the First Amendment

Tech Policy Podcast #368: How the Government Gets Your Data

Tech Policy Podcast #289: The History, Use, and Abuse of the Fairness Doctrine

The only thing Congress can agree on is to ban TikTok!?