18 May, 2023

Montana: The U.S. Constitution Takes It on the Chin Again

The government of another U.S. State, Montana, has collectively lost their minds by banning the distribution of TikTok.  This seems awfully close to the Nazi book burning campaign.  You are in effect saying that the citizens of your State are far too dumb to handle their own lives in dealing with ByteDance.  So on Amendment I grounds alone, you are de facto making illegal the act of expressing myself on the TikTok service because I won't be able to obtain the app.  This most cerrtainly seems like making a law abridging the freedom of speech.  If you have concerns about government devices, that's fine, you own them, and ought to have absolute control over what they do.  But to extend that to everybody is insane.  It's like the gross overreach of "Brandon" insisting that one of the missions of OSHA is to get every employed person jabbed (I refuse to say/write "vaccinated").  It's fine that you insist federal employees and contractors be jabbed, but trying to extend that to virtually all citizens is ludicrous.

What's next because you don't think we can handle it, prohibiting the sales of Das KapitalMein Kampf?  Sticking your noses in ISPs who do business in your State and erecting the Great Firewall of Montana?


English is a difficult enough language to interpret correctly when its rules are followed, let alone when the speaker or writer chooses not to follow those rules.

"Jeopardy!" replies and randomcaps really suck!