@sun There's no first amendment ("free speech") issue and no constitutional right to use TikTok as the medium for spreading one's message. Where there's a constitutional issue is the equal protection clause, because they didn't ban spying (not even spying for China), they banned one particular implementation, while ignoring all the others doing similar things. That's the reason why RedNote wasn't in the same crosshairs despite likely doing the same things that TikTok does.

I'm not a fan of the effort to remove them simply because they didn't target the action instead of the actor. (Because after all, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, etc would all likely be caught by the same rules. And so would auto makers and auto insurance companies -- Allstate is being sued by Texas over using people's cars' data feed to set rates -- and many more.)

I see everyone on Bluesky whining about free speech, as though that was the relevant issue. But not a one of them grumbled about government sponsored efforts to suppress Gab or the little Gablets (Truth Social, Parler, Minds, etc), which actually were free speech related. They wouldn't know free speech if an unapproved viewpoint reached out and slapped them in the foreheads.