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TikTok backed itself into a corner
The US Supreme Court on Monday upheld a 90-day ban on TikTok. The court said the ban violates free speech rights of TikTok’s users and the company. TikTok had argued the ban violated the free speech rights of both users and the company. US President Donald Trump had banned TikTok and ByteDance, the parent company…
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The US Supreme Court upheld the TikTok Ban Law
The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a new US law that bans the TikTok app from being widely used in the country is unconstitutional. The justices said the law violates the First Amendment of the US Constitution by depriving Americans of one of the most fundamental rights of free speech. President-elect Donald Trump has…
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The TikTok Ban is the first extinction-level event on social media
Responding to US’ decision to ban the TikTok app in the country, TikTok said its data collection practices are not different from those of social media apps in the US. It added that forcing it to close its US operations represents an unprecedented government suppression of free speech. “What we’re talking about is ideas,” TikTok’s…
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As Silicon Valley prepares for Trump, Meta says it will end fact checking
US Senator Rand Paul on Monday said that Facebook’s’Meta platform’ has “finally admitted to censoring speech”. “Meta has given up censoring speech…what a great birthday present to wake up to and…huge win for free speech,” he added. This comes after PolitiFact’s Co-founder, Bill Adair, left the platform after it became part of Facebook’s third-party fact…
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A judge told X to stay out of Brazil
A judge in Brazil has threatened to block Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s messaging service X if it doesn’t stop promoting free speech. Justice Marcelo de Moraes said X’s “free speech is the bedrock of democracy” and an “unelected, pseudo-judge” in Brazil is destroying it for “political purposes”. The judge had earlier froze the bank accounts…
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The Supreme Court has the final say on whether public officials can block someone from using social media
US Supreme Court heard a case in which the school board members blocked two parents, who had been critical of the board, from their social media pages. The school board claimed the pages were extensions of their campaign pages and thus were purely personal. The parents had sued the school officials for violating their First…
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Musk has fired an engineer who was complaining about it on the social networking site
Twitter’s Co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey took to Twitter’s official account to share a video showing the microblogging platform’s API failures. “A small API change had massive ramifications,” Musk said in the video. The video, posted on Twitter’s feed, was part of Dorsey’s response to a Twitter user who questioned Twitter’s plans to promote free…
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The latest crusade is to place religion over the rest of civil society.
The US Supreme Court will consider whether the owners of a company have a right to free speech under the First Amendment. The court has decided to consider the case in this way as it won’t be in favour of minorities. The owner of a company had asked the court to allow him to keep…
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The company is called Musk’s company.
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk in a letter to the US President Donald Trump said that Twitter is a “keyhole to what the future of social media will look like” if he becomes its CEO. The letter addressed Twitter’s advertisers who have raised concerns over Musk’s plans to promote free speech by cutting back on moderating…
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Several journalists are suspended for sharing information about Musk’s jet.
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said that he wanted to buy Twitter and put ex-US President Donald Trump back on the platform because he’s a “free speech absolutist”. “My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that’s a direct personal safety risk,” he added. Twitter permanently suspended…