Repeal the TikTok Ban

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We Demand Congress Repeal the Banning of TikTok

In April 2024, the US Congress passed legislation that, in effect, bans TikTok as of January 2025. President Biden signed it into law. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Independent candidate for President, charges that this ban is outrageous and unjustified, and demands that it be repealed. Please join him by signing this petition.

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Americans Have the Right to Read or Watch Any Outlet They Like

Some 170 million Americans use TikTok, and 78% of small businesses in the U.S. rely on the app for revenue. Now, the federal government plans to take that away. Robert F Kennedy, Jr. supports TikTok creators’ and users’ rights to free speech and the ambition to bring class action suits against the TikTok ban passed into law last April.

The legal argument to ban TikTok hinges on the idea that the app is a threat to national security. Whether or not that’s true, Americans have the right to read or watch any outlet they like. The first amendment makes no exception for national security. Free speech is sacrosanct, and banning it is the first step on the slippery slope to totalitarianism.

Many attempts to exert mind control have wrapped themselves in a cloak of pretended patriotism. 

Charges of Foreign Influence are a Red Herring

If Americans are genuinely worried about China’s influence, TikTok, which paid $5.3 billion in taxes in 2023, is an unlikely place to start. How about the offshoring of American jobs and our bioweapons programs to China, or China’s massive holdings in US debt and US farmland?

If we’re really concerned about China’s influence, shouldn’t we be addressing those problems, not targeting an app used by half the country and co-owned by American investors?

TikTok is a gateway for young entrepreneurs to start businesses at a time when many young people are saddled with debt or have little chance of owning their own home. Through TikTok, start-ups can get free publicity without a paid business account. The other social media giants like Google and Meta envision a pay-to-play platform for all verified businesses, and (legitimately) see TikTok as a threat.

Taking away financial opportunities from young Americans and stripping away our core constitutional rights over fears of "foreign influence" is a misguided strategy - to put it mildly. 

A US appeals court will hear oral arguments in the suit challenging the law that forces ByteDance to either sell TikTok or have it banned in the US. 

Let's Pressure Congress! 

But we don't have wait for the slow and uncertain legal process. This petition puts Congress on notice that the American people are outraged by the unjustified banning of TikTok. Please sign the petition calling on Congress to repeal the ban.

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