TikTok, HamHom, and the First Amendment

Volokh Conspiracy : Hamas is a designated foreign terrorist organization, but U.S. can ban Americans ' providing app store space and Internet hosting to terrorist-run platforms.

He says TikTok isn't a terrorist organization and the Chinese government isn't one.

Volokhan : The Chinese government poses much greater danger than do foreign terrorist organizations to liberty throughout the world.

In TikTok , the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a ban on Chinese government communications.

David Rothkopf : It's a tentative analysis, and I might well be missing some important things.

He says it's not required to conclusively link all the pieces in the puzzle before we grant weight to its empirical conclusions.

Rothkin: It might not apply to attempts to restrict all Chinese government communication; it would apply to Congressional decisions.

On the other hand, it seems clear that Holder would authorize a law requiring the post office not to deliver mail from Hamas .

Given that Holder upheld a law forbidding even private entities from providing communications services to foreign terrorist organizations, surely the federal government could decline to provide such services.