'If you don’t like TikTok or Facebook or YouTube, don’t use them. But don’t think any interpretation of the Constitution gives you the right to ban them,' Sen. Paul said, breaking from his GOP colleagues on a measure that would prohibit use of the app.
Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagSen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. has come out against a ban on TikTok, breaking from his GOP colleagues on a measure that would prohibit the use of the often-criticized social media app.published Wednesday in the Courier-Journal, Paul argued that banning TikTok would mimic censorship by the Chinese government. He cast the question of whether to ban the viral video app as a free speech issue and said he would defend the app even against members of his party.
He added,"If you don’t like TikTok or Facebook or YouTube, don’t use them. But don’t think any interpretation of the Constitution gives you the right to ban them."
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