Analysis: Montana’s new ban on the short-video app TikTok has quickly become one of the nation’s strictest and most contentious state technology laws.
Montana’s new ban on the short-video app TikTok seeks to erase one of the world’s most popular social media platforms from a state with more than a million people, many of whom use the app daily.
But it has also inflamed concerns about government overreach in the United States, too, especially because TikTok’s critics have yet to show proof that the popular app has become a tool for propaganda or espionage. Some free-speech experts expect any TikTok challenge would prevail on First Amendment grounds. In 2020, federal judgesPresident Donald Trump’s executive order banning TikTok and the Chinese app WeChat, saying the government had provided “scant little evidence” to justify a ban that would “burden substantially more speech than is necessary.”
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