'With this ban, Governor Gianforte and the Montana legislature have trampled on the free speech of hundreds of thousands of Montanans.' —ACLU
TikTok is a subsidiary of the Chinese tech firm ByteDance. Gianforte echoed the typical GOP line on TikTok in a
"With this ban, Governor Gianforte and the Montana legislature have trampled on the free speech of hundreds of thousands of Montanans who use the app to express themselves, gather information, and run their small business in the name of anti-Chinese sentiment," said Keegan Medrano, the ACLU of Montana's policy director."We will never trade our First Amendment rights for cheap political points.
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