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America is making a HUGE mistake! (ft. Senator Rand Paul)
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This is interesting as it raises the question once more of whose rights we are speaking. There are those of individuals, and then there are those of corporate fictions.
Rand said he thought there was a good constitutional case against banning tiktok. I disagree, and here's why: tiktoc is a corporate entity and in my opinion, contrary to SCOTUS who has botched countless cases, does not hold valid claim to rights to free speech equal to those of a living human being. Given the nature of corporations, and especially considering their characteristics and advantages of superorganization, it is my opinion that their rights may be more tightly circumscribed than may those of an individual. Should producers of medicines be able to lie or employ deceit in the marketing of their drugs? May auto manufacturers lie or use deceit in advertising their vehicles, especially where fuel economy and crash worthiness are concerned? A man may lie all day long about having been an olympic gold medal winner, all else equal. I find no analog right that might be reasonably assigned to a corporation.
In my opinion there is no constitutional right for tiktok to do business in America. There is a precedent-established right to do so, but that is not the same as an inherent right because it is synthetic and not "natural". I agree with Rand's point about the invalidity of the "what-if" logic he claims pervades the legislation in question. Such bans are cancer, as is the thinking used to justify them. Why not tax unrealized profits while you're at it? Oh wait...
Stooping to China's level seems a failure in creative thinking, but the security concerns are real and they are valid. I'm sure, however, that people more clever than myself could come up with a better solution.
The deeper question, of course, is the age old issue concerning the state of general humanity. We're nasty little apes ready to see those we view with suspicion taken out behind the chemical sheds to have double-taps administered to their heads. We're thieving, warring, paranoids ready to consume the planet for the sake of our manifold failings, many of which would be readily corrected were we cut of a better cloth. Actually, I think we're corduroy.
Rand said he thought there was a good constitutional case against banning tiktok. I disagree, and here's why: tiktoc is a corporate entity and in my opinion, contrary to SCOTUS who has botched countless cases, does not hold valid claim to rights to free speech equal to those of a living human being. Given the nature of corporations, and especially considering their characteristics and advantages of superorganization, it is my opinion that their rights may be more tightly circumscribed than may those of an individual. Should producers of medicines be able to lie or employ deceit in the marketing of their drugs? May auto manufacturers lie or use deceit in advertising their vehicles, especially where fuel economy and crash worthiness are concerned? A man may lie all day long about having been an olympic gold medal winner, all else equal. I find no analog right that might be reasonably assigned to a corporation.
In my opinion there is no constitutional right for tiktok to do business in America. There is a precedent-established right to do so, but that is not the same as an inherent right because it is synthetic and not "natural". I agree with Rand's point about the invalidity of the "what-if" logic he claims pervades the legislation in question. Such bans are cancer, as is the thinking used to justify them. Why not tax unrealized profits while you're at it? Oh wait...
Stooping to China's level seems a failure in creative thinking, but the security concerns are real and they are valid. I'm sure, however, that people more clever than myself could come up with a better solution.
The deeper question, of course, is the age old issue concerning the state of general humanity. We're nasty little apes ready to see those we view with suspicion taken out behind the chemical sheds to have double-taps administered to their heads. We're thieving, warring, paranoids ready to consume the planet for the sake of our manifold failings, many of which would be readily corrected were we cut of a better cloth. Actually, I think we're corduroy.
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