Why we are suing the Administration
Regardless of what you think about TikTok, the banning of an app in the interest of &quot;national security&quot; is largely unprecedented.<p>The jump from banning Huawei from building critical public infrastructure to banning an app that hasn&#x27;t even conclusively been proven to behave in any uniquely dangerous ways seems to be an intense, unjustified escalation of this conflict. [1]<p>You may disagree with me on the strict security-related merits of banning TikTok, and I am willing to concede all of them, however this will, either way, establish a precedent of an app&#x27;s coverage by 1st amendment free speech protections, and of what standards the government needs to do to ban an app, whether it be a Chinese social media app or an end-to-end encrypted messaging app. [2]<p>If the standard is simply to claim that it&#x27;s &quot;a national security threat&quot; without requiring any further evidence (besides the fact that it&#x27;s Chinese) then that might be cause for concern.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@fs0c131y&#x2F;tiktok-logs-logs-logs-e93e8162647a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@fs0c131y&#x2F;tiktok-logs-logs-logs-e93e81626...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;tiktok-ban-seed-genuine-security-concern-wrapped-thick-layer-censorship" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;tiktok-ban-seed-genuin...</a>