> Okay lets make sure China can't do this through tiktok.
> Then lets make sure that domestic political groups can't do this through facebook, instagram and reddit.
Except that in one case, it's a foreign actor interfering with the domestic political process, and in the other it's a domestic actor arguably exercising their first amendment rights.
Facebook is foreign to me, and my country has no first amendment, we only allow their constant spying because we are part of the five eyes and it is beneficial for us to let the yanks do whatever the hell they want to us.
Where in the Constitution does it say that the First Amendment only apply to citizens living in the country? It does not. Within the US, China or its representatives have exactly the same First Amendment rights as anyone else.
The First Amendment is broken, unfortunately, and the result is that a fire hose of paid, anonymous lies drowns out hard-won truths.
Don't get me wrong - the Framers were brilliant men, but two hundred years have gone by.
> Where in the Constitution does it say that the First Amendment only apply to citizens living in the country? It does not. Within the US, China or its representatives have exactly the same First Amendment rights as anyone else.
The Constitution is not a suicide pact. If it protected foreign subversion as a constitutional right, it would be such a pact, therefore it doesn't.
Boosting propoganda, censoring, and surveilling whilst acting as a utility and forcing people to sign up to participate in society is neither free nor speech.
They are manipulating the population and arguably infringing on rights that all free individuals should have (had the bill of rights not been written before mass media and the internet).
Then lets make sure that domestic political groups can't do this through facebook, instagram and reddit.