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TikTok should lose its big Supreme Court case
Imagine that the government tried to force Jeff Bezos, the Amazon billionaire and owner of the Washington Post, to sell that newspaper due to concerns that Bezos might order his paper to publish subversive content. No competent judge would uphold such a law, which obviously violates the First Amendment’s free speech protections.
The Supreme Court has said time and time again, over many different contexts and in cases involving myriad forms of media, that the government may not dictate...