Navigating the Digital Tide: The Battle for Freedom of Speech on TikTok

At a time when digital power dynamics have fused with speech rights now more than ever, they’re seeking to fight a tech regulation that could force a radical redesign of their smart digital ecosystems – and their lives – to speak the ungrammar of a New Delhi law. Their stage is not just their TikTok but the wellbeing of everyone who, on them, expresses, invents and reaches. This new act in social media’s drama with the state could be the most critical yet.

The Heart of the Matter: EXECUTIVE Action vs. Creative Expression

At stake here is the core of an aesthetic insurgency that has built TikTok into a global artform. At the heart of this rebuke sits a law that explicitly challenges TikTok, and the robust culture of creativity built around it by millions globally, requiring the app’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest the app, sold as a national security imperative. The measure has been met with fierce resistance by TikTok and, crucially, its expansive group of creators.

The Creators’ Standpoint: More Than Just an App

For them, the app isn’t just TikTok – it’s a gateway to both life and expression. Their lawsuit is not merely an echo of TikTok’s struggle; it’s a humanisation of it, revealing an existential threat to a creator’s ability to express themselves freely. Unlike the executives’ complaints, the creator’s lawsuit is grounded by the First Amendment – a cry from the heart that the law would censor their speech.

Echoes of the Past: Historical Precedents

It isn’t an isolated effort driven simply by the creators’ lawsuit: historical attempts to curtail TikTok’s reach – including a transitory executive order by former US president Donald Trump or even state-level legislation – were halted by judicial intervention. These incidents bear a striking resemblance to repeated attempts in the courts to halt speech-limiting measures regarding social media and digital platforms more generally.

A Divergence of Focus: Company vs. Creators

Even if what TikTok’s own legal challenge to the Biden administration order raised – the possibility that they cannot be ‘divested’ or ‘sold’ or cleanly spun off from ByteDance – poses questions about what is politically doable, the concerns being raised by TikTok’s creators are centring on the first-order consequences as they relate to the very real possibility of their silencing. Friends, that’s saying something. This, I believe, points towards the larger issue with respect to the future of digital platforms as the public squares of our 21st century – one that involves important rights questions as to who gets to occupy those spaces.

The Crux of the EXECUTIVE Dilemma

The executive history of this story importantly prompts questions of the limits of executive power in tensions between national security and the freedoms of individuals, freedoms in this case that express themselves through the platforms that TikTok provides for free expression and innovation. This case exposes specific tensions, but its occurrences exemplify broader issues that societies are trying to confront as their world moves online by two tests: the first is living with strangers, and the second is the release of technology.

A Digital Crossroads: Governing the Uncharted

The deeper the story goes, the more we realise that the fight over TikTok is just as much about this, as it is about the rights and responsibilities of government, companies and people to define the parameters of digital freedom – not just over one app, but for the international internet years beyond Musk’s ‘freedom convoy’. It points us back to the kind of rules that ought to exist to govern what happens in the digital places where a few executive strokes made in one jurisdiction would have repercussions for tens of millions of people everywhere online.

Understanding the EXECUTIVE Role

Some groundwork: what does ‘executive’ mean in this context? ‘Executive’ means executive decisions, or decisions made by executives – individuals in positions of authority, often in government or a corporation – that have huge consequences for the way platforms like TikTok operate, and by extension, their communities. FAQ 1. Why should I really care about whom TikTok sells itself to? Aren’t these ‘executive’ decisions between a government, a corporation, and each other? They won’t change how we use the app. Who cares? FAQ 2. Escalation: if the platform can decide whom it sells itself to, then they have the final say in the relationship. Executive control of a digital asset by wielding securitisation (control over how the platform earns value) makes selling itself – not to you, but to someone else – not just possible, but likely.

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Conclusion

The future of TikTok is not just a matter for the courts – it is a human story of imagination, of expression and of governance on the new frontier. As armchair CEOs decide the fate of a social app. TikTok’s creators fighting for their freedom is a symbol for all of us who continue to persevere in the face of adversity through our love for our devices, each other and the free exchange of ideas. Now more than ever, platforms such as Gizmogo need to empower you, the consumer, to challenge the status quo dictated by these armchair CEOs. Because, after all, isn’t that what technology should be all about?