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Supreme Court upholds the TikTok Ban.
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I'm just here to gloat a bit at all the very curious people who were for some reason convinced in the threads here on this when they were hearing it that it sounded like they were against the government and were going to rule in favor of Tiktok. Kind of reassess your thought process if that was you.
Doesn't look good to lurking liberals to see the Marxists/"leftists" making predictions like that and face-planting. One of the strongest things Marxism has going for it is predictive power. They didn't build up all that momentum and have all those issues with it just to flub it at the finish line and shrug about their norms.
But this is good ruling in that it opens the door wide for US gangsterism. Every foreign company operating in the US should see this as the highest court announcing they are not protected by basic law, they are not protected by the basic guarantees of the foundational US law and are subject to whatever whims the current congress or president wants to impose. Mighty nice business environment you have there, if it wasn't an important market companies would flee at this but sadly it is an important market but it should give companies pause and hopefully encourage foreign entities to take steps to reduce their exposure. It also exposes of course to tens of millions of Americans the nature of their government, of the censorship and control that liberalism pretends isn't there. It exposes a third of the country to the fact that their free speech loving government is hypocritical. Most will brush it off and go back to Zuckerberg treats, but some amount will not. Some amount will have their faith further eroded and some will even begin to experience class consciousness.
Oral arguments are often hilariously a game of charades. We all know that the justices have a bias that they are going to lean into 99% of the time, arguments are just for roasting the lawyers and seeing how they play as people if they were to ever join you on the bench. Rarely does oral argument even make it to the actual opinion, which are mostly written by the clerks.