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The first amendment prevents the US govt from restricting the speech of anyone in the US, not just citizens.

For example, the government cannot deport an immigrant simply because they criticized the government (they can deport for a variety of other reasons though).




The government can however bar entry into the US in the first place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleindienst_v._Mandel

> courts will not look behind [the] decision [not to waive the statutory exclusion of an alien] or weigh it against the First Amendment interests of those who would personally communicate with the alien


Interesting. Yeah, I'm broadly not sure how the first amendment applies to this TikTok bill, if at all.

I think TikTok is a security risk, but it seems to me that if the govt can ban TikTok, it can legally ban any foreign media. Which doesn't seem ideal from a free speech perspective.




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