This Tiktok ban, on the one hand is a totally silly and unimportant thing. I mean whether the "dancing nurses" app exists at all, or doesn't, really isn't going to change much of anything (apparently it is waking people up to the Palestinian genocide, and I don't want to downplay that) but on the other hand, it has really made me reevaluate the end of America.
This type of censorship could never have even been presented as a bill in Congress 10 years ago. Everyone knew that Government is not allowed to do censorship, even in the cases where the bleeding hearts wanted it to, such as saying mean words or doing "hate crimes".
I mentioned something about Tiktok ban in a casual conversation to a normie stranger (probably a leftist, the kind who was a hard core free speech supporter 10 years ago) and he said the ban should have happened a long time ago.
The fact that normies so casually are on board with blatant violations of the #1 item in the Bill of Rights means we cannot take any convention, freedom, or "right" for granted. If the first amendment can be openly violated, then say goodbye to 2nd amendment gun rights. (I'm actually far more worried about the other rights but it's important for all gun lovers to realize, unless the US Supreme Court somehow considers this ban unconstitutional, there is zero reason any gun rights should be upheld).
I read a story about some American schoolboys being *charged with federal crimes* for saying bad words. It's hard for me to realize as an American, that other American's just are ok with this. But apparently they are.
Freedom of speech is over. Soon all the things we know as "good" and "right" from "vaccine is harmful" to "men have a penis" to "freedom is not slavery" to "marriage is a sacrament" to "God is good" simply won't matter because it will be illegal to hold those beliefs. So your gun rights or land rights or bank account or whatever it is you vote on every 4 years will no longer matter. I am accelerating plans for relocation.