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tiktok-v-garland-pet
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1 CASES Agency for Int'l Dev. v. All. for Open Soc'y Int'l, Inc., 591 U.S. 430 (2020) clean
2 Arcara v. Cloud Books, Inc., 478 U.S. 697 (1986) clean
3 Arizona Free Enter. Club's Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett, 564 U.S. 721 (2011) clean
4 Ashcroft v. ACLU, 542 U.S. 656 (2004) clean
5 Barr v. Am. Ass'n of Pol. Consultants, Inc., 591 U.S. 610 (2020) clean
6 Boy Scouts of Am. v. Dale, 530 U.S. 640 (2000) clean
7 Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969) clean
8 Brown v. Ent. Merchants Ass'n, 564 U.S. 786 (2011) clean
9 Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976) clean
10 Burson v. Freeman, 504 U.S. 191 (1992) clean
11 Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., 573 U.S. 682 (2014) brief quality flagged
- A case named 'Sylvia Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.' exists in CourtListener at [{'volume': '1', 'reporter': 'U.S. Tax Cas. (CCH)', 'page': '50,341'}, {'volume': '123', 'reporter': 'Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA)', 'page': '621'}, {'volume': '134', 'reporter': 'S. Ct.', 'page': '2751'}, {'volume': '189', 'reporter': 'L. Ed. 2d', 'page': '675'}, {'volume': '2014', 'reporter': 'U.S. LEXIS', 'page': '4505'}, {'volume': '2014', 'reporter': 'WL', 'page': '2921709'}, {'volume': '24', 'reporter': 'Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S', 'page': '965'}, {'volume': '82', 'reporter': 'U.S.L.W.', 'page': '4636'}] (scotus, 2014), but the brief's citation does not match.
12 Citizens United v. FEC, 558 U.S. 310 (2010) clean
13 City of Austin v. Reagan Nat'l Advert. of Austin, LLC, 596 U.S. 61 (2022) clean
14 Holder v. Humanitarian L. Project, 561 U.S. 1 (2010) clean
15 Kennedy v. Bremerton Sch. Dist., 597 U.S. 507 (2022) clean
16 Lamont v. Postmaster Gen., 381 U.S. 301 (1965) clean
17 McCullen v. Coakley, 573 U.S. 464 (2014) brief quality flagged
- A case named 'Eleanor McCullen v. Martha Coakley, Attorney General of Massachusetts' exists in CourtListener at [{'volume': '134', 'reporter': 'S. Ct.', 'page': '2518'}, {'volume': '189', 'reporter': 'L. Ed. 2d', 'page': '502'}, {'volume': '2014', 'reporter': 'U.S. LEXIS', 'page': '4499'}, {'volume': '2014', 'reporter': 'WL', 'page': '2882079'}, {'volume': '24', 'reporter': 'Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S', 'page': '929'}, {'volume': '82', 'reporter': 'U.S.L.W.', 'page': '4584'}] (scotus, 2014), but the brief's citation does not match.
- At least one attributed quote wasn't located in the retrieved text.
18 Meese v. Keene, 481 U.S. 465 (1987) clean
19 Minneapolis Star & Tribune Co. v. Minn. Comm'r of Rev., 460 U.S. 575 (1983) clean
20 Moody v. NetChoice, 603 U.S. 707 (2024) flagged
- At least one attributed quote wasn't located in the retrieved text.
21 Motor Vehicle Mfrs. Ass'n of U.S., Inc. v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 463 U.S. 29 (1983) clean
22 Mt. Healthy City Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ. v. Doyle, 429 U.S. 274 (1977) clean
23 Nat'l Inst. of Fam. & Life Advocs. v. Becerra, 585 U.S. 755 (2018) flagged
- At least one attributed quote wasn't located in the retrieved text.
24 News Am. Pub., Inc. v. FCC, 844 F.2d 800 (D.C. Cir. 1988) clean
25 Reed v. Town of Gilbert, 576 U.S. 155 (2015) clean
26 Reno v. ACLU, 521 U.S. 844 (1997) clean
27 Rumsfeld v. Forum for Acad. & Institutional Rts., Inc., 547 U.S. 47 (2006) clean
28 Sable Commc'ns of Cal., Inc. v. FCC, 492 U.S. 115 (1989) clean
29 Shaw v. Hunt, 517 U.S. 899 (1996) clean
30 Simon & Schuster, Inc. v. Members of N.Y. State Crime Victims Bd., 502 U.S. 105 (1991) flagged
- At least one attributed quote wasn't located in the retrieved text.
31 Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc., 564 U.S. 552 (2011) clean
32 Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989) clean
33 Thompson v. W. States Med. Ctr., 535 U.S. 357 (2002) clean
34 Turner Broad. Sys., Inc. v. FCC, 512 U.S. 622 (1994) clean
35 Turner Broad. Sys., Inc. v. FCC, 520 U.S. 180 (1997) clean
36 United States v. O'Brien, 391 U.S. 367 (1968) clean
37 United States v. Playboy Ent. Grp., 529 U.S. 803 (2000) flagged
- At least one attributed quote wasn't located in the retrieved text.
38 Va. Pharmacy Bd. v. Va. Consumer Council, 425 U.S. 748 (1976) clean
39 Williams-Yulee v. Florida Bar, 575 U.S. 433 (2015) clean
40 Zauderer v. Off. of Disciplinary Couns. of Sup. Ct. of Ohio, 471 U.S. 626 (1985) clean
41 2024 WL 4996719 flagged
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42 AOSI, 591 U.S. at 437 brief quality flagged
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43 591 U.S. at 439 flagged
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44 EMA, 564 U.S. at 799 brief quality flagged
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45 EMA, 564 U.S. at 804 brief quality flagged
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46 EMA, 564 U.S. at 802 brief quality flagged
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47 Congress. EMA, 564 U.S. at 792 brief quality flagged
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48 603 U.S. at 740 flagged
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49 603 U.S. at 741 flagged
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50 Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) clean
51 Pub. L. No. 118-50 clean
52 138 Stat. 895 manual verify
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53 28 U.S.C. § 1254 clean
54 22 U.S.C. §§ 611-621 clean
62 Pub. L. No. 118-50 clean
64 Id. clean
70 22 U.S.C. § 614 clean
71 Public Law 118-50 118th manual verify
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72 Amendment I clean
73 U.S. Const. amend. I clean
§Record & filing references (121)
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- single[] out
- For You
- TikTok Inc.
- Project Texas,
- senior government officials
- data,
- TikTok[] Inc. … is a domestic entity
- operat[es] domestically
- [T]he Government [also] does not dispute facts suggesting at least some of the regulated speech involves TikTok's U.S. entities.
- TikTok[] Inc. … is a domestic entity operating domestically
- the fundamental principle of corporate separateness
- [t]he Government suggest[ed] that because TikTok is wholly owned by ByteDance, a foreign company, it has no First Amendment rights.
- reject[ed]
- does not implicate the First Amendment
- akin to Arcara v. Cloud Books, Inc., 478 U.S. 697 (1986).
- to shape the content that American users receive.
- influen[tial],
- justification
- references the content of TikTok's speech.
- the Government's concern with content manipulation
- reference[s]the content of TikTok's speech.
- risk that [China] might shape the content that American users receive
- interfere with our political discourse.
- longstanding regulatory history
- restrictions on foreign control … in the communications arena.
- distort[ing] free speech on an important medium of communication.
- foreign government
- risks
- potential risk
- could
- domestic entity operating domestically
- the curation of content on [the platform].
- text, images, videos, … or similar content,
- singles out TikTok … for disfavored treatment,
- The Government concedes, as it must …, that the curation of content on TikTok is a form of speech.
- [E]xpressive activity includes presenting a curated compilation of speech originally created by others.
- [S]ingl[ing] out TikTok … for disfavored treatment,
- [e]nforcement of a generally applicable law unrelated to expressive activity,
- the Act singles out TikTok, which engages in expressive activity, for disfavored treatment,
- limit[s] [China's] ability to manipulate content covertly on the TikTok platform
- interfere with our political discourse.
- cannot be justified without reference to the content of the regulated speech,
- reference[s]the content of TikTok's speech.
- China may … covertly manipulate the application's recommendation algorithm to shape the content that the application delivers to American audiences.
- national security risks
- the public record.
- covert[ly]
- most pressing concern
- domiciled in
- tagging
- TikTok's approach for dealing with these issues is in line with-and in many respects markedly better than-industry best practices.
- no information that
- coerce[d] ByteDance or TikTok to covertly manipulate the information
- no information
- covertly manipulate the information received by … Americans.
- not reliant on ByteDance and TikTok to date
- engage in … theft of sensitive data
- not reliant on ByteDance and TikTok to date
- theft of sensitive data.
- effectively mitigate[] national security risk associated with
- reliance on multiple trusted third parties,
- complex and thorough technical mitigations,
- unprecedented oversight, monitoring, and very rigorous enforcement mechanisms.
- combination
- thousands of ByteDance employees
- several years for an entirely new set of engineers to gain sufficient familiarity with the source code
- need access to custom-made ByteDance software tools.
- rich pool of global content
- translates to more users,
- significantly less attractive to global advertisers,
- render the TikTok platform inoperable in the United States.
- foreign adversary controlled applications
- can be used
- to collect vast amounts of data on Americans, conduct espionage campaigns, and push misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda on the American public.
- exposes children to harmful content,
- trends
- the glorification of Hamas terrorists,
- TikTok videos will be promoting that Taiwan ought to be part of China,
- striking to what degree th[e]narratives [on TikTok] are resonating with young people in America.
- show[ed] dramatic differences in content relative to other social media platforms.
- [i]f you look at the postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative to other social media sites, it's overwhelmingly so.
- content moderation,
- publicly available … rules and standards.
- content recommendation,
- For You
- match[] users with content they are predicted to like.
- promot[es] and filter[s]
- diverse and high-quality content.
- control by a foreign adversary
- operational relationship
- content recommendation algorithm.
- divest
- not target speech based on its communicative content.
- special characteristic
- designated by the political branches as a foreign adversary controlled application,
- wholly consonant with the First Amendment.
- much like
- two national security justifications
- covertly manipulating content on TikTok
- collect[ing] data of and about persons in the United States.
- suppressing propaganda and misinformation,
- [t]he Government's justification in fact concerns the risk of [China] covertly manipulating content on the platform.
- TikTok does not identify any company operating a comparable platform in the United States with equivalent connections to [China].
- hav[e] the[] hearings and then mak[e]the findings directly.
- misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda.
- specific videos
- false information,
- shape the content … to suit the interests
- [C]overt manipulation of content is not a type of harm that can be remedied by disclosure.
- the type and amount of data that TikTok collects from U.S. users
- U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
- Chinese e-commerce platforms
- a dominant U.S. market presence
- struggl[ing] to protect user data.
- the Executive's judgment
- did not raise
- foreign adversary controlled.
- Beijing ByteDance Technology,
- Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Beijing
- ultimately owned by the Chinese company ByteDance
- many U.S. companies maintain software and other engineering operations in China.
- controlled by a foreign adversary
- fact[]
- subject to the control of a foreign adversary nation.
- would try to comply if
- ByteDance and TikTok Global have taken action in response to [Chinese] demands to censor content outside of China.
- squarely den[ying]
- public record.
- U.S. technology companies … have Chineseheadquartered subsidiaries
- face the same theoretical risk that Chinese government officials may seek to compel disclosure of customer or user data.
- it is unlikely that China would seek to compel TikTok to turn over user data for intelligence-gathering purposes,
- more effective and efficient means of obtaining relevant information.
- users' precise locations.
- miss[] the forest for the trees.
- a mistaken notion about the volume of data flow,
- are not consistent with the practical realities of Source Code review.
- differential treatment
- immediate threat.
- [f]or years.
- the executive branch could go back and build a record under the more general provision against [Petitioners] and go back in to court and use that record to achieve the same outcome.
- [S]cores of politicians
- the TikTok election.
- such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially TikTok