elections and spying. again, tiktok disagrees. we will firewall protect the u.s. data from unwanted foreign access. tiktok will remain a place for free expression and will not be manipulated by any government. reporter: some suggest worries about tiktok are overblown. it poses about the same threat that companies like facebook and instagram and youtube and twitter pose. reporter: and free speech advocates see a big court battle brewing. the ban is compblatantly unconstitutional. it s an act of political theater. it is rooted in xenophobia. and it is trampling on the free speech rights of hundreds of thousands of people in montana. unless a court steps in montana s ban will go into effect next january, and it contains no provisions for punishing individual users, only companies providing access to tiktok. still, tech folks say enforcing
overdue. we had a number of instances he posted things for any other user would have been in violation of our standards. when the looting starts, the shooting starts. reporter: did you think in that moment it was right to kick him off? i thought in that moment it was, in the lead-up to that moment i was still defending keeping hip on the platform because as horrible as some of the things that he posted, i still just couldn t get myself past the point that i thought that people deserve to know what the people that are representing them have to say. reporter: while trump s social media ban was welcomed by many in the u.s. it was criticized by free speech advocates. facebook says it is assessing the risk to public safety and risk of imminent harm and giving trump the barometers facebook has assessed in terms of figuring out if he should be allowed back on essentially what it is is the
collectively conspiracy theorists disinformation. it s a menacing thing when you have the largest law enforcement agency attacking free speech advocates. yeah, it is incredible. a lot of people thought something was going on behind the scenes but could not figure out what was going on, now it s out there. an op-ed you penned that says when the fbi attacks its critics as conspiracy theorists as you were just mentioning, it s time to reform the bureau. so, what do you mean by that specifically. what kind of reforms do you think are needed now? well you know, 50 years ago when watergate began, there was a bipartisan call for an investigation into the fbi and
on monday, the british government will publish its long awaited plan a new online safety bill, which they hope will restrict the amount of harmful material to which children are exposed on their social media platforms. the bill has been years in development, and seven different secretaries of state have added or removed various elements. in these latest iteration, and after some intense lobbying from the tech companies and free speech advocates, they removed a controversial clause that would have forced internet companies to remove legal but harmful content. instead, the tech giants will be forced to verify the ages of children using the platforms, and introduce a system that gives users more control to filter out harmful content. the government claims the bill will create one of the toughest regulatory regimes in the world, a blueprint for other countries to follow. the whole point around this bill fundamentally is around protecting children. that s why the first thing that i did
person i don t always attack him i pick my battles and take my shots but i call it pretty fair. howard: speaking of trump, assuming elon musk takes over and comes back on twitter that could be a big deal and some journalists are saying the conservative culture warriors who abandoned the platform would come back i say so what why shouldn t they have a voice? of course it s so absurd if you notice how twitter went after al experiencing who i ve known for year a former new york times reporter not exactly a right wing conservative because he was a vaccine skeptic they took him out that s one of the problems with twitter, what i don t understand about the left these days. traditionally when i went up and went to journalism school most of them were liberal free speech advocates, the left today is a totalitarian gatekeeper in so