Judging Freedom - MORE Tik Tok Banning_

Episode Date: December 16, 2022

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Hi, everyone. Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Friday, December 16th, 2022, a week till the Christmas weekend. It's about 2.50 in the afternoon here on the East Coast of the United States, the House of Representatives and the Senate, which are tying up business for the year, are still involved in a dispute about whether or not they should ban TikTok from government devices, government mobile devices and government desktops. I fiercely oppose banning TikTok, not because I'm on TikTok, but because it is ridiculous for the American government to say we're going to ban our employees from using TikTok because we think it's a security issue. Why should the owners of TikTok have access to the software on our employees, military and civilian desktops and mobile devices. Baloney, the biggest spires on Americans, the American government, the federal government, the NSA, and its 60,000 spies. Every single keystroke on this is captured by the NSA, and the CIA can get it when they want it and the FBI can get it when they want it. So Senator Josh Hawley, supposedly conservative Republican from Missouri and defender of the

Constitution, who are you to push this legislation and say TikTok is dangerous because it's spying on Americans? When every year you and your Republican colleagues and your buddies in the Democratic Party as well, both parties do this, some progressives oppose it and some libertarians oppose it, but mainstream and elitists in both parties favor all this spying.

How can you say TikTok is banned, but not the NSA? Try banning the NSA from government computers and see what happens there. All right. I don't know where this is going to go. I think TikTok is a great instrument and a great tool for communication. Some of it frivolous. Most of it entertaining. Some of it more serious like mine. Although I've seen people do duets with me, you know, where they'll show me on their mobile device and then themselves on their mobile device and just go back and forth and back and forth. I think it's hilarious, and I encourage all my TikTok subscribers and friends and fans in the government and not in the government to do so while you still can. P.S., some state governments are trying to ban TikTok altogether.

They won't get the first base. Why? Because the First Amendment says Congress shall make no law prohibiting the freedom of speech. Today that means no government shall make any law interfering with the freedom of speech. As long as the Supreme Court understands the First Amendment to mean that, the rest of us don't have to worry about TikTok being banned. But the military and civilian employees of the federal government,

you've got a bad boss. You've got to worry about how he treats your freedom of speech. Judge Napolitano for judging freedom.