The STOP HATE Act wants social media platforms to report their moderation policies and outcomes to the government. And it’s not the only censorial measure Rep. Josh Gottheimer wants.
Politicians' interest in controlling the content you see shifts from public media to social media.
Norma Nazario blames her son's death on social media algorithms.
The Constitution requires the president to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”
The ban is a bad law. But leaving it on the books and willfully ignoring it sets a potentially more dangerous precedent.
New laws aimed at protecting kids online won’t work, and could even make things worse. Parents, not politicians, are the best defense against digital dangers.
"I said now that they're banning it, I want to join, just because they're telling me I can't," the Kentucky senator tells Reason.
The president seems optimistic. It's not clear why.
Extending the deadline gives TikTok a temporary lifeline, but the real issue—government overreach in tech and speech regulation—still needs a congressional fix.
But at least he restored respect for a tariff-loving predecessor by renaming a mountain.
"Every day I confront a bill that wants to ban another Chinese company," the Kentucky senator tells Reason.
A unanimous Supreme Court decision established as much in 1965.
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While pledging to postpone the ban by executive order, the incoming president said the government should have a 50-percent ownership stake in the app.
The popular video app restored service in the U.S. after President-elect Donald Trump promised to postpone a federal ban.
With just hours to go before it is set to shut down, many senators and representatives are still posting on the app they claim is too dangerous for the rest of us to use.
"I cannot profess the kind of certainty I would like to have about the arguments and record before us," writes Justice Gorsuch.
The Supreme Court appears poised to uphold a ban on the app, but many creators aren't so sure.
Justice Neil Gorsuch criticized "the government's attempt to lodge secret evidence in this case." Still, things look grim for the app.
A TikTok ban could devastate thousands of independent workers, but the real challenge lies in modernizing labor laws to support the new economy.
The ban violates the First and Fifth Amendments. Strike it down.
Hannah Hiatt isn't the first parent to face child welfare investigations sparked by an internet mob.
It seems unlikely that five Justices will buy TikTok's First Amendment arguments when neither Judge Douglas Ginsburg nor Judge Neomi Rao nor Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan did so.
The popular but beleaguered social media app will have until January 19 to find an American buyer or be banned.
The rush to crack down on the young people making money on TikTok misses the real causes and possible effects of the social media influencer boom.
China's free speech record is bad, but the federal government's isn't so great either.
The plaintiffs hope to "help Republicans and conservatives see why this ban is inconsistent with the free speech values they say they care about."
Congress is "silencing the 170 million Americans who use the platform to communicate," the company argues.
Instead of lobbying for age verification and youth social media bans, parents can simply restrict their kids' smartphone use.
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Banning companies for doing business with China is a bad path to start down.
The author of The Anxious Generation argues that parents, schools, and society must keep kids off of social media.
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"It's a disturbing gift of unprecedented authority to President Biden and the Surveillance State," said Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.).
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Instead of freeing Americans from censorship, the TikTok bill would tighten the U.S. government's control over social media.
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