Is The TikTok Ban Good? Perspective From A Street Photographer.

I don’t have TikTok and I’ve never used it. But 170 million Americans use it an average of 90 minutes per day. That’s a wild number. The House passed a bipartisan bill to ban TikTok. And when BOTH parties push a bill through The House, it raises an eyebrow. The reasoning behind the ban is China. Or so we are told. China is collecting information on us. So let’s just ban it. I don’t buy it. I think it’s an attack on our speech and the speech of 170 million Americans. And the information China is supposedly collecting on us is already widely available for free on The Internet.

Now as someone who loves street photography, I do not support anything that attacks my speech. Street photography is considered free speech and protected by the 1st amendment. So first we ban TikTok, and who knows… maybe public photography comes next. I don’t like it and anyone interested in upholding their rights to free speech shouldn’t either.

I hadn’t thought too much about this but then I watched a video by Glenn Greenwald that opened my eyes to this issue and the real motives behind the ban.