Peter Hamby

I'm not an attorney, but do you think that Samuel Alito and John Roberts and Sonia Sotomayor are going to, one, understand that, oh, creators are having their free speech rights removed or agree with that because those creators can obviously just post on Snapchat on Spotlight or Reels or YouTube Shorts or whatever. You can still stand on an apple crate in this country and scream through a bullhorn.

I'm not an attorney, but do you think that Samuel Alito and John Roberts and Sonia Sotomayor are going to, one, understand that, oh, creators are having their free speech rights removed or agree with that because those creators can obviously just post on Snapchat on Spotlight or Reels or YouTube Shorts or whatever. You can still stand on an apple crate in this country and scream through a bullhorn.

But two, the First Amendment argument that they presented is that TikTok as a private company has a right to control editorially what's on its platform. And I think it was Alito, who I don't like, but Alito shot back like... Okay, cool, but that's China. That's not a U.S. company, right? Like, why are you making this argument? I think there is a libertarian argument to be made.

But two, the First Amendment argument that they presented is that TikTok as a private company has a right to control editorially what's on its platform. And I think it was Alito, who I don't like, but Alito shot back like... Okay, cool, but that's China. That's not a U.S. company, right? Like, why are you making this argument? I think there is a libertarian argument to be made.

But two, the First Amendment argument that they presented is that TikTok as a private company has a right to control editorially what's on its platform. And I think it was Alito, who I don't like, but Alito shot back like... Okay, cool, but that's China. That's not a U.S. company, right? Like, why are you making this argument? I think there is a libertarian argument to be made.

Yeah, let George answer that. But according to my reading of the transcripts of the Supreme Court hearings, the justices were not open to the idea that China deserves to have editorial control over its company because it's not a U.S. company. And we've had Friendster, we've had Vine, we've had MySpace, Tumblr withered, Facebook sort of became irrelevant. Platforms come and go, they die, whatever.

Yeah, let George answer that. But according to my reading of the transcripts of the Supreme Court hearings, the justices were not open to the idea that China deserves to have editorial control over its company because it's not a U.S. company. And we've had Friendster, we've had Vine, we've had MySpace, Tumblr withered, Facebook sort of became irrelevant. Platforms come and go, they die, whatever.

Yeah, let George answer that. But according to my reading of the transcripts of the Supreme Court hearings, the justices were not open to the idea that China deserves to have editorial control over its company because it's not a U.S. company. And we've had Friendster, we've had Vine, we've had MySpace, Tumblr withered, Facebook sort of became irrelevant. Platforms come and go, they die, whatever.

These people need to realize that this company is not unambiguously good. It is crazy the amount of subtle... propaganda on this platform, beginning with their own corporate propaganda. When their CEO testified before Congress last year, before the House, and I think also the Senate, you know, there were some dumb members of Congress who like didn't get the tech.

These people need to realize that this company is not unambiguously good. It is crazy the amount of subtle... propaganda on this platform, beginning with their own corporate propaganda. When their CEO testified before Congress last year, before the House, and I think also the Senate, you know, there were some dumb members of Congress who like didn't get the tech.

These people need to realize that this company is not unambiguously good. It is crazy the amount of subtle... propaganda on this platform, beginning with their own corporate propaganda. When their CEO testified before Congress last year, before the House, and I think also the Senate, you know, there were some dumb members of Congress who like didn't get the tech.

But most of the questions were actually pretty probing and good. And the popular media coverage of it was tough hearing for TikTok. If you went on TikTok after that hearing, it was nothing but like Dear Leader, the CEO, we love you. TikTok is great. Even Redbook, there's reports out there that they're also downranking and removing content that's deemed offensive.

But most of the questions were actually pretty probing and good. And the popular media coverage of it was tough hearing for TikTok. If you went on TikTok after that hearing, it was nothing but like Dear Leader, the CEO, we love you. TikTok is great. Even Redbook, there's reports out there that they're also downranking and removing content that's deemed offensive.

But most of the questions were actually pretty probing and good. And the popular media coverage of it was tough hearing for TikTok. If you went on TikTok after that hearing, it was nothing but like Dear Leader, the CEO, we love you. TikTok is great. Even Redbook, there's reports out there that they're also downranking and removing content that's deemed offensive.

It's just really gross the way people just like the app and therefore think there are no national security concerns. They can't

It's just really gross the way people just like the app and therefore think there are no national security concerns. They can't

It's just really gross the way people just like the app and therefore think there are no national security concerns. They can't

influence public opinion united states they already are based on that one tweet i just read you i thought that was really great but also it's like one thing i'm interested in tim is trump obviously he's filed a amicus brief because he wants to stay what's your prediction where does this land yeah we got five days trump comes in on the 20th the day after there's some discussion that elon's talking about purchasing it by dance was by dance was back on that but what do you think how do you think trump plays it they want to ban tiktok and trump

influence public opinion united states they already are based on that one tweet i just read you i thought that was really great but also it's like one thing i'm interested in tim is trump obviously he's filed a amicus brief because he wants to stay what's your prediction where does this land yeah we got five days trump comes in on the 20th the day after there's some discussion that elon's talking about purchasing it by dance was by dance was back on that but what do you think how do you think trump plays it they want to ban tiktok and trump

influence public opinion united states they already are based on that one tweet i just read you i thought that was really great but also it's like one thing i'm interested in tim is trump obviously he's filed a amicus brief because he wants to stay what's your prediction where does this land yeah we got five days trump comes in on the 20th the day after there's some discussion that elon's talking about purchasing it by dance was by dance was back on that but what do you think how do you think trump plays it they want to ban tiktok and trump